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I'm starting to believe the "McDonalds" identification might be a slight of hand to protect privacy invasions? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m timid about this and might be late to a party where others already had this idea, so please, no haters.

I can’t get over how facile and stupid the identification of LM was at a McDoballs. This is someone who fell off the entire grid for three months??

Just asking… but couldn’t an organization trying to conceal its reach and inevitability track a fella… and then… force an identification?

I do not have any idea about details… it’s broad strokes. Could it be? How many other privacy lovers heard about these three months completely off the grid somehow and also wondered… how?

Please pardon if this isn’t the appropriate place but the real theme is privacy. What if the watchers are always watching even when a person might believe they have made themself completely digitally invisible?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It was all over national news, and some international news, for days.

You might not be sure, but you don't have to be sure. I would expect they got a very large number of tips, most which did not pan out, of course.

But I also don't think it's ever been confirmed that it was an employee. My suspicion is there happened to be some law enforcement officer and they called it in. That would explain the rapid response, and the caginess about the tipoff.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I also don’t think it’s ever been confirmed that it was an employee

Oh yeah that's another thing: would you rat out the guy who killed a disgusting CEO if you flipped burgers for a living? Whatever you think of murder, you might well look the other way in this instance.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For a $50k reward? Yeah, I don't know what McDonald's employees make at that location, but it's probably low enough to make that very tempting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Up to...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Nobody pays attention to that part. They just see the very prominent $50k! and think that’s what they’re gonna get. Even if they do catch the “up to” they are going to hope. 50k is still life changing money to someone that makes 5x what a McDs worker makes.