Doctor Doom Thanked Seattle for All the Surveillance Cameras
Activist dressed as Doctor Doom urged Seattle's council to curb Axon and Flock surveillance after a committee voted to redirect $250,000 from CCTV expansion.
Clifford Cawthon, a policy advisor at the Washington State Department of Commerce, appeared at a Seattle Public Safety Committee meeting in costume as Doctor Doom to protest the city's expanding mass surveillance. He criticized Seattle PD's access to 62 cameras feeding an Axon real-time crime center that ingests CCTV, body camera, geolocation, ALPR, and dispatch data from vendors like Axon and Flock. His group Community Not Cameras submitted a petition with five demands, and a committee already voted to move $250,000 away from CCTV expansion pending full council approval.
- Doctor Doom stunt was political theater by policy advisor Clifford Cawthon
- Seattle PD has access to 62 cameras feeding an Axon real-time crime center
- Committee voted to redirect $250,000 from CCTV expansion to community programs
- Activists cite data sharing with ICE, military, and police misuse of surveillance data
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