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Podcast: レアジョブ英会話 Daily News Article Podcast
Episode: Lego head mugshots add to California’s debate on policing and privacy
Description: A Southern California police department has been handcuffed by Lego after the toy company asked the agency to stop adding Lego heads to cover the faces of suspects in images it shares on social media.
The Murrieta Police Department has been using Lego heads and emojis to cover people’s faces in posts on social sites since at least early 2023. But the altered photos went viral after the department posted a statement about its policy, prompting several news articles and, later, the request from Lego.
“Why the covered faces?” the department wrote on March 18 in an Instagram post that featured five p...