Re:Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark
by dsfyu404ed on Thursday January 11, 2018 @10:56AM
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>I think the biggest issue here is that Uber actually has programmers on its staff who think its ok to write a program whose sole purpose is to try and break the law.
People who grew up in a situation where the law and the institutions that create and enforce it did them little good and plenty of bad (i.e. urban poor) often have little respect for it (though they may follow it as that's usually the least worst option when you're moving up the economic ladder).
I don't see a problem with software that shuffles data and access around to create cross-jurisdiction paperwork headaches for the police. Forcing them to cross their t's and dot their i's before going in makes it much harder for people with political ambitions to go fishing for stuff to put on their resume. We all know that law enforcement practices saying no via similar "oh you have to go get the info from these people" spaghetti fairly often with FOIA reqs.
People who grew up in a situation where the law and the institutions that create and enforce it did them little good and plenty of bad (i.e. urban poor) often have little respect for it (though they may follow it as that's usually the least worst option when you're moving up the economic ladder).
I don't see a problem with software that shuffles data and access around to create cross-jurisdiction paperwork headaches for the police. Forcing them to cross their t's and dot their i's before going in makes it much harder for people with political ambitions to go fishing for stuff to put on their resume. We all know that law enforcement practices saying no via similar "oh you have to go get the info from these people" spaghetti fairly often with FOIA reqs.