The High Crime of 'LMAO': How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke

“More than 30 agencies ran more than 6,300 searches with ‘TBD’ (short for ‘To Be Determined’) as the ‘reason.’”

Flock sells the reason field as the safeguard. Type a justification and the search is accountable. Officers typed “TBD”, “LMAO”, and keyboard mash, and the system let every search through. Nobody reads the logs until EFF does, so they don’t count as oversight.