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This is no different than a spotter LEO or witness recognizing you from a mugshot or from video surveillance. It's just that it's done with EVERYBODY now.
by sys_64738 8y ago
This is no different than a spotter LEO or witness recognizing you from a mugshot or from video surveillance. It's just that it's done with EVERYBODY now.
- PurpleBoxDragon 8y agoBut scale is an important difference in legality and morality. Consider the following example. Calling someone to ask them on a date is normal acceptable behavior. Doing it 20 times an hour, 3 hours a day, every day, quickly becomes immoral and illegal.
- 0xfeba 8y ago> Calling someone to ask them on a date is normal acceptable behavior. Doing it 20 times an hour, 3 hours a day, every day, quickly becomes immoral and illegal. Not if you're calling different people, totally legal.
- sys_64738 8y agoAt some point it has to change from legal to illegal. That is, with n calls then you're still legal but that n+1th call makes you a felon. What is n? What is n for facial rekognition?
- anticensor 8y agok (number of takes) does not matter. r (number of uses) does.
- Paul-ish 8y agoThe US supreme court ruled that putting a GPS device on a car constituted a search [1]. People at the time were making the same argument you were. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Jones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Jones