Among the recipients of the money: Cicero Town President Larry Dominick and Lake County Sheriff John Idleburg, both of whose government agencies use the technology from the Atlanta company.

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    Probably some extortion here and there where they find it possible, too. It definitely will turn into that as the surveillance authoritarian state advances.

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      “Kompromat” is the term we use in Germany for such material. Derives from the practise of eastern block autocracies and their secret services to blackmail foreign politicians into compliance by presenting them with video evidence of their pedophilia and other disgusting crime.