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In the US, after the end of the post-Civil War period known as Reconstruction, southern states enacted vagrancy laws, which permitted the authorities to imprison displaced former slaves and condemn them to forced labor if it could be argued that they were idle.

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The authorities could be alerted if the crowd movement slowed down or if the crowd density moved beyond a desired threshold.

We can predict adverse pollution events ahead of time, identify heavy polluters, and they can be ordered by the relevant authorities to scale back their operations.

But the document I happened to see that would help us build a case for the authorities was a document from the army that thanked my father for his work on behalf of the secret services.

And Egyptian activists are assuming that these technologies for surveillance are still being used by the transitional authorities running the networks there.

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