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Tracked 526 Times Without a Warrant or a Reason

The city’s eyes don’t blink, and they certainly don’t need a warrant.

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Several futuristic neon-green cars speed through a glowing urban tunnel, with floating illuminated cubes above and streaking light trails conveying high-speed motion.

Lee Schmidt, a retired veteran in Norfolk, Virginia, wanted to know how many times the city’s cameras had been tailing him. He found out the answer in court: 526 times in less than five months. That’s about four times a day for the crime of existing with a car.

“It’s a crazy high number. It was shocking,” Schmidt told NBC News. “The creepiness level just went straight up.”

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