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Re:Cops won’t need a warrant to pull the data off an autonom... by mannykannot on Saturday February 03, 2018 @11:24AM (#16298199)
It is the people who want to expand general surveillance who would like to blur the distinction between that and accident investigation, in a bogus attempt to justify the former, and I don't think we should go along with it.
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Re:Cops won’t need a warrant to pull the data off an autonom... by harlanji on Saturday February 03, 2018 @11:47AM (#16298301)
I eat popcorn watching the double-think these days. Laws simply weren't designed for perfect enforcement. We need a new legal framework that can handle omnipresence.
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Re:Cops won’t need a warrant to pull the data off an autonom... by whatshisface on Saturday February 03, 2018 @01:44PM (#16298883)
Many penalties have been scaled to compensate for the expected likelihood of getting caught (so as to keep the expected value of the crime negative.) Even without the radical overhaul it sounds like you're suggesting, we'll definitely have to update at least a few things.
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Re:Cops won’t need a warrant to pull the data off an autonom... by jjoonathan on Saturday February 03, 2018 @07:50PM (#16300606)
Have they? My impression was that legislatures almost never reduced penalties outside of hotbutton political issues.
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