Darth Vader Showed Up at San Diego City Hall to Defend Surveillance. Sort Of.

Darth Vader has finally found a surveillance system worthy of the Galactic Empire. Unfortunately for the Empire, the whole thing was satire. A man dressed as the Dark Lord of the Sith appeared before San Diego’s Public Safety Committee on August 19 and delivered an enthusiastic Star Wars-themed endorsement of the city’s controversial Flock surveillance technology. He approached the microphone in…