An insurance company’s API exposed customers’ car location histories

Re:An insurance company’s API exposed customers’ car locatio... by red_hairing on Thursday May 11, 2017 @08:00AM (#14315369)

it's really sad how young online political activists have adopted privacy issues instead of adopting issues like workers rights, vacation time, pay, a strong welfare state, universal healthcare etc...

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Re:An insurance company’s API exposed customers’ car locatio... by pjc50 on Thursday May 11, 2017 @08:07AM (#14315403)

Generally they have adopted a lot of those, but privacy is kind of our specialisation as tech people. Often we see it as a necessary prerequisite to the others. Especially worker's rights: mass surveillance is used against worker organisation.

Dismissing people focusing on "X" instead of "Y" is useless and disruptive.

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Re:An insurance company’s API exposed customers’ car locatio... by bbzealot on Thursday May 11, 2017 @08:03AM (#14315383)

The struggle for privacy and for workers rights, vacation time etc. can coexist, I don't see anything wrong in that.

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Re:An insurance company’s API exposed customers’ car locatio... by aphexbr on Thursday May 11, 2017 @08:54AM (#14315613)

Why would he be capable of only addressing one issue at a time? If I fight against racial discrimination, for example, why does that mean I'm not also battling for workers' rights?

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Re:An insurance company’s API exposed customers’ car locatio... by qntty on Thursday May 11, 2017 @11:59AM (#14317048)

The guy who wrote this is Italian... maybe he's satisfied with the state of many of these things in Italy.

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