I spent 7 days evading America’s 82 MILLION surveillance cameras

Film Synopsis

Existing in public without hitting a database seems impossible thanks to the 82 million surveillance cameras, 100,000 Flock license plate readers, and millions of Ring doorbells active in America. So in order to learn about them, I spent 7 days trying to avoid them.

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