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Re:Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to l... by nativeit on Sunday July 12, 2026 @08:43PM (#48886474)
A Flock camera isn’t an invasion of privacy. Fleets of hundreds or thousands of Flock cameras feeding into a massive dataset is definitely an invasion of privacy, and hardly sudden.
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Re:Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to l... by tadfisher on Sunday July 12, 2026 @09:01PM (#48886599)
More precisely: pinpointing you at a given place and time does not need a warrant. Collecting many such pinpoints, allowing authorities to reconstruct your exact movements at some point in the future (without needing to flag you or issue a BOLO or whatever), does.
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