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Some of the LinkedIn Responses are direct and on-point, and also hilariously/depressingly based depending on how you look at it:

EDIT: In hindsight, I think I should've looked into posting this in a different community.. It's closer to a silly "innovation".. soo.. is this considered FUD? I also don't support smoking or vaping, especially among kids. Original title had "privacy-violating" before the "solution".

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago (63 children)

How is this invading someone's privacy? All it's doing is detecting if children are smoking in a room or space at school and then putting an alert up about the detection on a screen.

They have zero right to privately smoke at school, or anywhere for that matter, smoking is illegal for children and not something to be taken lightly.

Similarly, adults have no right to privately smoke whilst in the workplace in the bathroom or other non-smoking designated areas. This is also illegal and not to be taken lightly.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I agree. These are anonymous messages. I don't see any privacy violations.

They could set up camera's that record who's entering and leaving the restroom and thus violate privacy but this seems fair play to me. They'll just vape somewhere else.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They're not anonymous tho, the image very clearly labels who's desk the vaping was detected at

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It says “Simon’s desk” which is the name of the guy making the post, which to me says he was testing the software from his desk.

When it is deployed, it would say “vaping detected in north stairwell” or whatever. They are not installing sensors on every desk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Simon's desk probably refers to a location, not actually the desk of Simon.

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