San Francisco police violated city policies in using a private network of cameras to conduct mass surveillance of protesters, two civil liberties groups alleged in a civil rights lawsuit filed Wednesday on behalf of three activists.
Police accessed in real-time a private network of more than 400 cameras operated in the Union Square shopping district during May 31-June 7 protests that followed the death in Minnesota of George Floyd while in police custody, the ACLU Foundation of Northern California Inc. and the Electronic Frontier Foundation alleged.
The San Francisco Superior Court lawsuit is based on records the groups obtained from ...
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