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1leggeddog t1_jddywhd wrote
Reply to comment by BecomeABenefit in License Plate Surveillance, Courtesy of Your Homeowners Association | Flock Safety works with police to market scanners to hundreds of private community groups — which have no privacy safeguards by Hrmbee
You can totall cork that Genie back in.
We do this kind of stuff all the time in IT with personal information to prevent linking people to specific IDs (in this case, license plates).
It's one thing to look up a plate, it's another make that process easy to the point that you have your own personal database at your fingertips at all times.
This leads to abuse.
1leggeddog t1_jdds011 wrote
Reply to comment by BecomeABenefit in License Plate Surveillance, Courtesy of Your Homeowners Association | Flock Safety works with police to market scanners to hundreds of private community groups — which have no privacy safeguards by Hrmbee
You dont have a problem with this until it becomes a problem that affects you.
With privacy matters, you need to look outside your own boundaries to how this information can be misused
1leggeddog t1_jddrpoa wrote
Reply to License Plate Surveillance, Courtesy of Your Homeowners Association | Flock Safety works with police to market scanners to hundreds of private community groups — which have no privacy safeguards by Hrmbee
Just as the public doesn't want the government to do surveillance on them, the same mentality must be put on private entities.
1leggeddog t1_jcvglyr wrote
Reply to The Fermi Paradox and the Possibility of Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life by Beginning-Court1946
Either were alone or were not
Either option is terrifying
1leggeddog t1_j9vld9a wrote
They are going after each other, nice
1leggeddog t1_j8v1zxk wrote
Reply to comment by Plastic-Duck-1517 in Tesla Workers Announced a Union Drive. The Next Day They Were Fired. by psychothumbs
Dont you just love that pos?
1leggeddog t1_j8tned6 wrote
Elon can afford breaking the law by firing these workers as it will cost him less in the long run then letting them unionize
"When the penalty for a crime is a fee, the law is for poor people"
1leggeddog t1_j6046sq wrote
But who watches the watchers?
1leggeddog t1_j146wy6 wrote
Reply to I built a shed this summer by JohnVerSteeg
Looks great
1leggeddog t1_j0pdgpg wrote
Reply to Social media influencers are charged with feeding followers ‘a steady diet of misinformation’ in a pump and dump stock scheme that netted $100 million by Wagamaga
Aaaaand nobody is shocked.
1leggeddog t1_iyd5l44 wrote
Reply to comment by dontstabpeople42069 in US judge orders Amazon to ‘cease and desist’ anti-union retaliation by nacorom
A fine means that law is meant for poor people.
1leggeddog t1_iybbp5q wrote
Amazon: "ok, we promise we won't do it again"
Amazon the next day: "Lets fire more employees that try to unionize. We can afford it."
1leggeddog t1_iy56kej wrote
Reply to comment by TheLAriver in Eye-tracking study suggests that negative comments on social media are more attention-grabbing than positive comments by giuliomagnifico
Data is not finite.
Data has a shelf life.
Just take the myriads of studies done on Alcohol. It was proven many times over to be bad for you. Ok.
Then it was proven to have beneficial effects for some with helping with coronary artery disease, lower bad cholesterol, etc etc.
Then the concentration of blood/alcohol ratio allowed before it becomes impaired driving was revisited several times over the years and refined according to better health understanding of the human body.
What i'm saying is that not only does the univserse change, so does our understanding of it. And that impacts past studies and past truths we held as facts, often to a greater amount of certainty.
1leggeddog t1_iy4ufpl wrote
Reply to comment by brickyardjimmy in Eye-tracking study suggests that negative comments on social media are more attention-grabbing than positive comments by giuliomagnifico
> Why even do a study on this?
Because we need data. My college professors years ago told us we'd be doing this til the end of time. And that we need ot keep doing it, because policies change, views on subjects, change over time by different age groups and identities.
And everytime you say something, no matter how mundane, you'll be challenged to prove it with facts all the time.
1leggeddog t1_iy4t4ti wrote
Reply to comment by Locksmith999 in Eye-tracking study suggests that negative comments on social media are more attention-grabbing than positive comments by giuliomagnifico
Had us in the first half...
1leggeddog t1_iwgg5az wrote
Reply to What are we? Why are we? by BOTT__
There is no end that we can see and at the rate of expansion, when we do see it, it'll have moved again until the great heat death of the universe.
Think of our existence as a firework.
We're still in the explosion part.
As for why, well there isn't a why. We just are.
1leggeddog t1_jde67jd wrote
Reply to comment by JadeitePenguin1 in License Plate Surveillance, Courtesy of Your Homeowners Association | Flock Safety works with police to market scanners to hundreds of private community groups — which have no privacy safeguards by Hrmbee
Like the article suggests, it could be used to track people to locations they don't to be known, such as abortion clinics, especially in the wake of the incredibly moronic and repressive laws recently enacted in some states.
It could also be misused in the same way by falsefying records to make people appear where they were not or being purely convicted by association.
Say there was a drug bust in a neigborhood and someone that had a criminal record was keeping clean, ends up being recorded his car just passing through. People have gone to jail for less.