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If I Go to a Protest, What Kinds of Personal Information Might Police Collect About Me? (important guest post)

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And when thousands of protesters are out on the street, the opportunity is ripe for law enforcement to not only surveil the scene but to collect personal information that it can then hold on to for a long time. They matched his DNA from their database to DNA extracted from a cigarette butt he left at the scene of the protest in 2016.