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It’s weirdly hard to steal Mark Zuckerberg’s trash
- ghshephard 9y agoThe guy visited Zuck's place in SF and Palo Alto. He only found the neighbors bins (empty) on the trip to SF. The site in Palo Alto is under construction. That was it - one trip to each house and he gave up.
- pnloyd 9y agoI really wished I had looked In here to see your comment before reading more than half the article. Would have been a much more interesting article had things turned out a little differently.
- herewulf 9y agoIt's still an entertaining read. And I have no stake in all this Facebook (or other "social media") nonsense.
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- etrautmann 9y agoThe point of this article is the metaphor about privacy, how it primarily exists for the rich, and Zuck's hypocrisy. These all stand regardless of the effort taken by the author to literally comb through his trash, which was a bit of a stunt but shouldn't detract from the larger point and conversation
- creaghpatr 9y ago>I’d drive to his Mission District pied-à-terre on trash collection day, snatch a few bags of whatever, and dig through it. I could learn more about Mark Zuckerberg’s habits and interests, creating my own ad profile of him. Then I could sell this information to brands looking to target that coveted "male, 18-34, billionaire” demographic. Think of it as a physical version of Facebook’s business model. I’ll admit, I chuckled after reading this.
- braderhart 9y agoZuckerBorg has a hydrogen fuel cell. He doesn't eat and rarely creates waste.
- jaxbot 9y ago>Every circuit considering the issue has concluded that no reasonable expectation of privacy exists once trash has been placed in a public area for collection There are particularly scary implications to this, such as cases where police have taken trash and seized discarded feminine products to test for drug use and DNA. There needs to be some stronger protections there.
- mikeash 9y agoI’m not sure I see the problem. Once you throw something away, why shouldn’t it be fair game?
- lifeformed 9y agoThe problem isn't that other people have access to it, but that it's personally identifiable to you while it's still out on the curb.
- mikeash 9y agoThat’s a choice you make, though. If you have sensitive garbage, you can dispose of it by other means.
- lifeformed 9y agoBut there's a reasonable expectation that people won't dig through your garbage to find one of your hairs and find your DNA info. It doesn't seem fair to expect someone to make sure their garbage is DNA-free.
- mikeash 9y agoYou only have to do that if you don’t want your DNA to be in there. It doesn’t make sense to me to say that police can’t examine literal trash left in the street.
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- olympus 9y agoA better option is to just own up to being a dumpster diver and look in everybody's trash cans on the street. There's a plausible cover story that you want to maybe get some valuable rich-people trash (maybe a Juicero) and it's not illegal. Looking through everybody's trash makes you a wierdo and not somebody targeting Zuck, which makes the bodyguards less likely to do anything. Also, do it before pickup time. If Zuck's bodyguards actually stop you then you might have a story. But right now the story is made of completely imagined things. Those bodyguards won't touch you until you try something stupid, like climbing Zuck's fence. I'm a little disappointed that I wasted seven minutes reading the story as written. More follow-up would have been nice. He could have tried the next Wednesday since his first trip was over two weeks ago.
- mschuster91 9y ago> Those bodyguards won't touch you until you try something stupid, like climbing Zuck's fence. Bodyguards including ex-cops with records for excessive use of force. I certainly wouldn't rule it out that they fall back into old habits - and I'm certain the "blue codex" (aka cops stick together and cover each other, no matter how big the dumpster fire) would protect them.
- jimmywanger 9y agoFrom the parent comment literally: > But right now the story is made of completely imagined things. You conjecture many things. That doesn't mean you have to publish all of them. Do they not edit/vet these articles anymore?
- tyfon 9y agoI'm having some problems reading this web page, all I see is "Trash denied" but no way to scroll or anything. Is there a "trick" I'm missing here? I really miss the days of plain webpages.
- feelin_googley 9y agohttp://fortune.com/2018/03/31/facebook-employees-are-reportedly-deleting-controversial-internal-messages/ http://fortune.com/2018/03/31/facebook-employees-are-reporte...
- dnr 9y agoFor an extra $20/month, my building gives Sunset Scavenger a key to the alleyway where our trash and recycling bins are, and they come in and get them instead of us having to move them out to the street. It also reduces the risk of someone stealing trash, and keeps people from rummaging around in the recycling for bottles and cans (which is much more common). I'd be shocked if Zuck didn't do the same.
- torpfactory 9y agoWow: love this quote: “Here was a guy who created one of the biggest mass surveillance operations in human history: A digital Oppenheimer, too naive or narcissistic to own the horrific consequences of his invention, who instead apparently sees the spread of global fascism and the unraveling of democracy as a mere engineering and PR problem.”