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Re:Microsoft bans U.S. police departments from using enterpr... by forgetfreeman on Thursday May 02, 2024 @05:38PM (#40241640)
The irony of individuals freaking out over the notion of what the wildly underfunded and largely indifferent federal government might do to collect data when private industry is surveilling basically every aspect of their existence for most of every day...
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Re:Microsoft bans U.S. police departments from using enterpr... by brokenmachine on Thursday May 02, 2024 @07:23PM (#40242441)
Private industry can't directly send someone to prison.
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Re:Microsoft bans U.S. police departments from using enterpr... by LtWorf on Friday May 03, 2024 @02:22AM (#40244715)
Soon: "our AI predicts that individual X has a 90% chance of committing a violent crime within the next semester"
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Re:Microsoft bans U.S. police departments from using enterpr... by lupire on Friday May 03, 2024 @09:46AM (#40247605)
Private industry sells your data to the government to do that.
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Re:Microsoft bans U.S. police departments from using enterpr... by mlrtime on Friday May 03, 2024 @08:50AM (#40247114)
"wildly underfunded"? Do you really believe what you just wrote here?

What private industry surveillance is mandatory? FFS.

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Re:Microsoft bans U.S. police departments from using enterpr... by forgetfreeman on Friday May 03, 2024 @03:23PM (#40251297)
Yerp I sure do, and if you're unconvinced I'm guessing you're either a libertarian or under 30, possibly both. There isn't a watchdog agency in the government that's currently operating at full staffing and funding levels, same with education. Sure our military budget is fairly flush but you get away from making people dead and agency budgets kinda go off a cliff.
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Re:Microsoft bans U.S. police departments from using enterpr... by throw10920 on Sunday May 05, 2024 @10:36PM (#40270633)
User "forgetfreeman" has not actually looked up the budget of the US government.
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