Surveillance technology has played a big role in the investigation into the recent West Sixth Street mass shooting, and participants in this year’s SXSW festival certainly understand they are being watched by law enforcement on downtown cameras. But how much surveillance technology is too much? Host Nikki DaVaughn is joined by Mackenzie Rhine, a digital rights attorney and board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Austin, to talk about the Austinites who stopped the city from adding cameras to parks, Austin’s new surveillance technology act, and if cameras can actually stop crime.
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