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Re:Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ... by patcon on Thursday December 12, 2019 @08:46PM (#21778440)
Oy. If we're going to deploy scary tech against criminal behavior, let's pls not rally for it to be used for petty crime committed by desperate ppl. If our liberties are getting flayed, let's at least see it used against ppl at the top -- suspected inside traders, etc. At least that way we'll get the powerful backlash and safeguards we all deserve ;)

Of course all of this feels gross, but as someone who was homeless in SF for a bit, going after people on the outs feels really backward.

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Re:Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ... by x86_64Ubuntu on Friday December 13, 2019 @12:30AM (#21779340)
Yes, but real crime in the US is relatively rare. So folks are going to go from real crime to "crimes of people whose existence annoys me".
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Re:Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ... by homonculus1 on Friday December 13, 2019 @08:47AM (#21781438)
That's a really unfair characterization of people's anger at getting their property stolen and destroyed.
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