U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr

Re:U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr by bigbillheck on Monday May 15, 2023 @10:26AM (#35948682)

A lot of other more important things would get cut before the marshals felt the squeeze (c.f. other current events like what NYC does with the police and what they cut in order to have more cops)

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Re:U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr by jonhohle on Monday May 15, 2023 @10:41AM (#35948937)

Then follow the law and penalize already illegal misuse or already illegal collection of data. Any administration that says it’s for civil rights cannot also be for mass surveillance.

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Re:U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr by adventured on Monday May 15, 2023 @10:43AM (#35948988)

That's correct. It's a longer term, monster cultural problem in the US.

We're spending plenty of money to have the nice things our society should have (eg universal guaranteed healthcare; better public transportation), and we're spending it wrong (eg paying way too much for healthcare) and or in many of the wrong places (eg the decades-long war on drugs and its consequences).

Nobody does inefficient government spending (and general spending, our consumers are fiscal idiots too) like the US. We spend more and get less for it than any affluent peer nation.

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Re:U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr by denton-scratch on Monday May 15, 2023 @10:56AM (#35949219)

> fiscal idiots

Ignorant concerning tax policy? I don't think that's what you meant, I think maybe you meant "financial idiots".

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