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Child Protective Services Bought a $1M Spy Car

Georgia’s Child Protective Services quietly bought a nearly million-dollar surveillance vehicle, including a cell-site simulator (a “Stingray”) that can sweep up everyone’s phone data within a mile, using federal foster-care funds, while the state claims it can’t afford basic services for kids in the system.

Meanwhile MapQuest is having an unlikely comeback by adding Flock camera locations to its maps after someone found Flock’s data sitting unsecured online and the USPS is turning mail trucks into rolling surveillance cameras.

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