Here’s a comforting story from EFF.org, the website of the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Through an analysis of 10 months of nationwide searches on Flock Safety’s servers, we discovered that more than 50 federal, state, and local agencies ran hundreds of searches through Flock’s national network of surveillance data in connection with protest activity. In some cases, law enforcement specifically targeted known activist groups, demonstrating how mass surveillance technology increasingly threatens our freedom to demonstrate.
Protesting is not illegal. Patriots protest. Jackbooted thugs try to suppress protest.
Read the whole story at EFF.org.