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Ah, yes, test the surveillance tech in a town with 7x more Indigenous people than the national average (percentagewise). Of course, where else would you trial something so controversial and creepy. Siiiigh. (I think it's curious I hadn't heard a word about this until now.)

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In 2027, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

wait, we're posting CCTV to Instagram to try and identify people? Jeeeeeeez.

The careful framing of "we only had one false positive in the first week" and [since June, across the entire trial] "we had 33 alerts and 18 arrests" is gross and overtly misleading. For all we know it's got an almost 50% false positive rate. Whee.

Details the crime & legal process that set this precident. Read with caution.