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Comment Re: We'll see (Score 3, Informative) 36

Flock cameras are contracted almost exclusively by local municipalities, not the federal government.

While I suppose that Congress could pass a bill banning federal agencies for paying for access to their data, if you want to keep the cameras out of your neighborhood, the place to do it is at your local council meeting.

Comment Re: Do they have any business presence in NY? (Score 2) 56

This is not exactly uncharted ground here. These jurisdictional issues are literally covered in the first week (often the very first day) of the first class of the first year of law school (Civil Procedure).

Google "International Shoe Co. v. Washington" and edify yourself.

Comment Re: Long life (Score 3, Interesting) 86

Except that's not how it works at all, because a) risk doesn't scale linearly with exposure, b) there's a huge difference between external and internal exposure, and c) you seem to be assuming that all cancer/cancer is can be traced to radiation exposure, which is nowhere close to the truth. In fact, it's a tiny fraction, far behind things like chemical exposure and plain old random genetic mis-transcription.

Heck, even in the hardest hit areas in Japan from the Fukushima disaster, the WHO estimates only a 4% increase in the lifetime risk of hard tumor occurrence for female children (the highest risk group) with significant internal exposure to radioisotopes. And to clarify, that's a 4% increase to the rate, not an additional 4% likelihood of getting cancer.

The same study estimates the highest change would be in the rate of thyroid cancer, an increase of 70%, but even there, the change in the absolute chances lifetime occurrence is only estimated to go from like .5% to .8%. And that's a cancer that's particularly linked to internal exposure, so not particularly germane to the scenario being discussed here.

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