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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is the Peter Thiel world. Trump will die in his sleep of old age and one too many chicken nuggets, and Thiel’s puppet, Vance, will take over.

At which point all privacy will be off the table.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Peter is a danger to all of humanity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

All my commie friends should stop calling me a sovereign citizen wanna be for rolling without a plate now right?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

the Flock employee described the sorts of information the company will supplement ALPR data with. The first is data breaches.

That illegal obtained data, so illegal to use. They just admit to crime?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

its not a crime if you are rich and evil

or more famously: cOrpoRatIons Are nOt PeOplE

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A funny loophole. The person who stole the data did a crime.

Now that the data is public then it is free game because it is public information.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Windows XP sourcecode leaked 2020. Wine not touch it because illegal.

Same on nvidia leak by lapsus$.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Because the source code is copyrighted, the fact that userA has an email address [email protected] isn't copyrighted and so companies can ingest that data into their databases.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We desperately need a law against the third party doctrine loophole for the 4th amendment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We needed that when Snowden leaked, now the political will is gone and the average person just accepts it because they get free services in exchange for letting advertising companies and law enforcement live in their pocket.

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

I don’t think anyone accepts it. But nothing will be done about it until the capitalists are removed from power.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

A tragical traffical tragedy. Flock off!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hasn't that already been a thing for a long time now?

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

Yes. Each state already has this data.

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

Yeah but private enterprise didn't. And if commercial, Leo can buy it without a warrant

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

Private enterprises can just buy the data from the state in most places.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Death to alprs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago