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Good job vetting your vendors Uncle Sam! Somehow, we'll end up paying (taxpayers) to clean this up - just like we paid to deploy it. Sure would be nice if we ha
by module0000 7y ago
Good job vetting your vendors Uncle Sam! Somehow, we'll end up paying (taxpayers) to clean this up - just like we paid to deploy it. Sure would be nice if we had any voice/vote in these things...
- azinman2 7y agoYou think people voting on vendors would somehow result in less data leaks?
- module0000 7y agoIt would result in us not approving the project/vendor at all. edit: We(citizens) don't like being spied on, and it just rubs salt in the wound that we have to pay for it.
- jstanley 7y agoGiven that this is literally only useful for tracking people, not approving the project would be ideal.
- Retra 7y agoTracking people is like 90% of what every organization does. It's why we have names, phone numbers, addresses, id numbers, license plates, etc. "Tracking people = bad" is an untenable assumption.
- savethefuture 7y agoWell go ahead and dox yourself right here for us.
- Retra 7y agoPerhaps I'm not being clear. "Tracking people involuntarily" might be bad. "Tracking people unnecessarily" might be bad. But they will be bad because they are involuntary and unnecessary, not because they are tracking people.
- stale2002 7y agoMy username is associated with my real life identity and would be trivial for people to look me up. I am already "doxxed" and it doesn't bother me.
- phnowned 7y agoWho gets born in 2001 or whatever. 2002, I meant. You must feel embarrassed now. Jk
- torified 7y agoI don't see it anywhere. Where does it list your personal info?
- stale2002 7y agoIt's easily googleable, man. In 5 minutes you could find my LinkedIn info, and then know exactly who I am and where I work.
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- bqqyz 7y agoIf you think 0% of the citizenry supports scanning licence plates that cross the border, I have bad news for you.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoThe overwhelming majority of people are probably ok with recording plates at the border. If it's confined to the border it's not really any different than the customs agent jotting down your license plate. It's also not really "tracking", it's just a record created at that single point. It's the whole network that makes it "tracking" It's the record keeping everywhere else and tracking that that enables that's not ok.
- sneak 7y agoJotting down on paper is not the same as aggregated and uploaded to an open ftp server.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoI honestly support license plate readers on most roads, if they were used for average speed measurements and in conjunction with automated ticketing of people speeding.
- wbronitsky 7y agoIf you are a citizen and have not been disenfranchised, and I grant you that many fall outside of these buckets, you absolutely have a say. That say is that you can elect whomever you want to decide these things for you. It is the central mechanism in a representative democracy.
- inetknght 7y ago...and then the person we voted for doesn't win the election and the person who does win the election doesn't listen to the citizens they're supposed to represent.
- pingucrimson 7y agoRe representative democracies, why are opinions on disparate issues like the economy, abortion, climate change, etc. all packaged into one party? At least 99% of people won't find a party that agrees with them on every single issue, so it feels like there should be a better system.
- mrguyorama 7y agoBecause the US has first past the post. Sure you could vote for someone who matches every single one of your ideologies, but the chance that they win is zero.
- jorblumesea 7y agoThis is a flawed viewpoint. The idea that any single company can stand up to a nation state is absurd. The level of resources that Russia or China brings to bear for a single hack is far beyond what any company or even groups of companies could defend against. This is the unfortunate weakness of the Western style democracies in the face of totalitarian states. We have a much more obvious divide between private and public entities. In China and Russia, the lines are blurred and often they get much better support from the government to defend and hack the opposition. Even to the point where China will hack US companies and just give the IP to Chinese companies.
- DogRunner 7y ago> Even to the point where China will hack US companies and just give the IP to Chinese companies. You can be sure that the USA is giving the "acquired" IP to their us companies as well.
- jorblumesea 7y agoNot to the level that China is doing it, that's for sure. Just by the very nature of how closely companies in China operate with the government, you'd be fooling yourself if you think that's equivalent.
- ALittleLight 7y agoWhere do I sign up to collect stolen IP?
- UncleSam 7y agoI try my best!