FBI seeks US-wide access to license plate cameras, wants “data in near real time”
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Yeah, how about no.
ETA: because I'm sure this regime will respect these limits just like all the others they've respected, right?
ETA: because I'm sure this regime will respect these limits just like all the others they've respected, right?
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I hate having jokes that are evergreen.
State panopticon run by the Stasi? Those silly, dirty, totalitarian commies and their hate for my freedoms!
State panopticon sponsored by PlantantirFlockDisney Pro Premium Plus+? Well, freedom ain't free, baby.
State panopticon run by the Stasi? Those silly, dirty, totalitarian commies and their hate for my freedoms!
State panopticon sponsored by PlantantirFlockDisney Pro Premium Plus+? Well, freedom ain't free, baby.
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Maybe in your hand (and lots of others), but not mine. I carry a dumb phone, when I carry one at all.
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yeah; I have a smartphone but 90% of the time it is in my desk or glove compartment.
If they want to watch me pedalling at the gym listening to audiobooks, I can give them the dates and time; they are the same most weeks.
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The whole world is slowly walking toward those Dystopian futures we have read in books and watched in old movies.
Some nations slower, others a little bit faster.
The US is racing like they got some ghost pepper up their collective assholes. (the administration I mean ofcourse).
Some nations slower, others a little bit faster.
The US is racing like they got some ghost pepper up their collective assholes. (the administration I mean ofcourse).
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It's wrong when supposed allies do hyper-surveilance too (as it should be, but equally hypocritical)
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Yeah, but a good 95%+ of the people you encounter have cameras in their hand, so it's a moot point.
It's like back when I was paranoid about having a car that could be remotely hacked. Yeah, I drive a stick shift. Yeah, my car doesn't have self-steering. If something seems to be going pear shaped, I smack the gearshift into neutral or hit the clutch. Good for me.
If the government wants to Michael Hastings me, they'll just hack some Stellantis or General Motors
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Great to see the surveillance industry has gone for-profit, like the incarceration industry
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I don't know about anyone else, but I'm growing a little weary of living in the future. Dreamed of Star Trek, ended up with...something else.
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It's often forgotten that the Star Trek on TV was the result of a tumultuous 21st century filled with war, tyranny and general societal collapse that was only salvaged because someone managed to make contact with the Vulcans. Up until the point, the world was on the verge of apocalypse.
So unfortunately for the Trekkies, things are pretty much playing to the timeline. Hopefully someone out there in the void finds us and is benevolent.
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We managed to skip the Eugenics wars, at least. Star Trek future followed some real horrors. We're not out of hope yet...
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It wasn't bad enough that auto insurance companies want to put trackers in your car and are using extortionist rates to put you in that position. Now, here comes the FBI. Time to make my license plate less legible.
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What I want is a hologram system which I can attach to my car.
Then, whenever I'm in the mood, it will make my car appear to the rest of the world as an M1 tank, a farm tractor, a surfboard riding a tsunami, or whatever else I'm in the mood for at the moment—and my car proper simply disappears as a "car" and becomes to the rest of the world whatever hologram I am projecting.
Thus, no concern for LPRs or other "gubmint" spyware.
Well, I can't dream, can't I??
Then, whenever I'm in the mood, it will make my car appear to the rest of the world as an M1 tank, a farm tractor, a surfboard riding a tsunami, or whatever else I'm in the mood for at the moment—and my car proper simply disappears as a "car" and becomes to the rest of the world whatever hologram I am projecting.
Thus, no concern for LPRs or other "gubmint" spyware.
Well, I can't dream, can't I??
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So in USA this is OK, but a national database of gun deaths or gun owners is unauthorized?
What a country.
What a country.
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And? Google et. al. just want to shovel lame-ass advertising in your face. Yeah, it sucks. But the FBI? They want to throw you in jail for saying bad things about Trump. Or for even not-so-nice things about Trump. Or for voting for someone other than Trump. Or living in a blue state.
Kind of a big difference there bucko.
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Well, then it must be a 'good' thing for the FBI that these datasets already exist. All the agency has to do is A) pay private industry for access for B) get a warrant to force said private industry to hand it over when they can prove legally actionable need.
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I'm obviously not lookin forward to what our man K$sh has in mind; but the really ominous thing about this RFP is that what is being asked and what is being offered is basically an outright statement that it already exists.
If you had to do any significant buildout $36 million dollars for 70% coverage would be absurdist comedy. That number only makes sense if it's basically onboarding and portal customization and maybe turning 'opt-in' to 'opt-out' in a few locations to reach 70%.
If you had to do any significant buildout $36 million dollars for 70% coverage would be absurdist comedy. That number only makes sense if it's basically onboarding and portal customization and maybe turning 'opt-in' to 'opt-out' in a few locations to reach 70%.
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James Bond will no longer be able to make do with an Aston Martin capable of rotating its license plates to display one of three alternative faces. Q will need to develop a flat display panel capable of displaying any desired combination of letters and numbers in a relevant format.
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The government wants to spy of us but hides behind masks when roughing up & killing Americans.
Use to be Republicans were against government intrusion into every facet of American's lives - guess that changed with the orange hairball.
Use to be Republicans were against government intrusion into every facet of American's lives - guess that changed with the orange hairball.
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The US does seem to have a historical tendency from time to time to use the most paranoid scare scenarios as justification for doing the most horrible things itself.
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