"The Chicago Police Department can't give its officers weapons that have the power to search and seize our most personal information without any instructions about how to use them," Craig Futterman, a lawyer representing Boyle, said in a news release.

"That's like giving officers guns and telling them to go get the bad guys without even teaching them how to shoot. We've recently seen how this lack of surveillance oversight has played out at the NSA (National Security Agency), where employees abused surveillance tools to spy on their spouses."

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