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THIS is an essential PSA ahead of the midterms. Please do your best to share this with as many people as you can, because Musk is being enabled to operate outside the law to steal your data and track your activity Thanks to Johnny Bananas for the clip 🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/9uVBAn2OS4

WOAH 🚨 Texas State Police purchased new vehicles that have surveillance systems that will READ YOUR PHONE as you’re driving down the highway Phones will soon be monitored. “Texas State Police recently bought vehicles equipped with technology that can intercept mobile phone data” The Texas Department of Public Safety approved an emergency $4,487,500 purchase of four 2026 Chevrolet Tahoe Police Pursuit Vehicles loaded with Cognyte FalcoNet gear. Only $600,000 of that was for the trucks themselves. The rest bought the surveillance systems Purchase order included: - Four FalcoNet core systems: $2.85 million - 5G perpetual licenses: $280,000 - Backpack-portable units so it can leave the vehicle - Antenna kits, amplifiers and mounting hardware Once connected, the system pulls identifying phone information like your IMSI, IMEI and location data. 3 system can be operational in about 3 minutes and process THOUSANDS of devices per minute (Holy sh*t) The surveillance state is expanding in America and Texas seeks to be leading the way “I'm in Houston, the largest city in Texas, where authorities are quietly building a web of cameras, drones, sensors and AI systems” - The cameras at some businesses like gas stations are required by law in Texas and police can request the footage - Roads are getting a new AI traffic camera system - Houston scrapped its old gunshot detection system after opposition, but it's approved a new one which can detect gunshots, cars screeching and glass breaking - Drones are also being used. Police used them during the World Cup, but won't say how many they have now “And is my phone being monitored? Texas State Police recently bought vehicles equipped with technology that can intercept mobile phone data… and the most controversial tool right now, Flock license plate readers. Officials here won't say how many they have or where they are, but there's at least 3,800 in the county alone” The police vehicles equipped with this new surveillance system will look like ordinary state police Tahoes. Antennas are concealed behind a raised false roof