Our take on Trash Bags: The New Firewall Against Surveilling Software
Municipalities in the US are solving high-tech surveillance woes with a decidedly low-tech solution: garbage bags. In Dayton, Ohio, black trash bags now adorn Flock automated license-plate readers, a creative stop-gap while city officials fumble through contract clauses and accidental ICE data-sharing scandals. It's the ultimate in civic improvisation: if you can't shut it down, bag it up.