flyoverstate

joined 1 year ago
[–] flyoverstate@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

my smartphone is tracking me?! pikachugasp.exe

[–] flyoverstate@kbin.social 38 points 1 year ago

The "report" is issued by something called the Stanford Internet Observatory, which is not in fact a telescope on a hill, but rather an operation by the guy who, from 2015-2018, was the "Chief Security Officer" of Facebook - an ironic title, considering that this was the period of the Cambridge Analytica machination, the Rohingya genocide, and the Russian influence operation that exposed 128 million Facebook users to pro-Trump disinformation.

https://kolektiva.social/@ophiocephalic/110772380949893619

[–] flyoverstate@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

A rubber room.

[–] flyoverstate@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It becomes an issue because the cops can simply say they were within 8 feet or approach the person filming and then make them stop. It would be instantly abused to stop evidence of discrimination or anything else. Striking this down was the right choice

[–] flyoverstate@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So it's not illegal but they were still able to force his parents to buy him another ticket? To my untrained eye that feels like an easy lawsuit?

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