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This is like shitting on someone's car to point out the fact that...birds shit on cars. Installing software on an entire Apple Store's set of display models be

by titzer 5y ago

This is like shitting on someone's car to point out the fact that...birds shit on cars. Installing software on an entire Apple Store's set of display models because one employee supposedly "consented" is a serious violation of their property. The fact this software took pictures of unaware people directly right in their face is gobsmacking. But it was an "art project". At first I was pretty miffed right along with the author that the SS raided them. But with that detail, I am kinda glad they did it! Epicly stupid decision.

tueirueiru 5y ago
The Secret Service is abbreviated USSS, not SS as that is associated with the Nazi Schutzstaffel.
- titzer 5y ago
  How do you know my mistake wasn't intentional? :)
  - MrGilbert 5y ago
    That would make matters worse.
sellyme 5y ago
> Installing software on an entire Apple Store's set of display models because one employee supposedly "consented" is a serious violation of their property. I wouldn't have thought that the number of employees asked would be too important here (in comparison to e.g., seniority) - what's your minimum bar of different workers consulted before you'd no longer consider it a violation of Apple's property?
- technologia 5y ago
  These aren’t franchises where some employee can make that decision, the artist would have had to reach out to Apple’s legal team to get consent to do this at one of their stores. Yea that might be cumbersome and make the work impossible to do but if you were in the employee’s shoes would you really want the onus of all of this on your head?
  - sellyme 5y ago
    > the artist would have had to reach out to Apple’s legal team to get consent to do this at one of their stores Oh that's the smarter thing to do for sure, but you're still going to be contacting one employee (who then potentially contacts other employees). I just found the emphasis on the quantity of employees in the GP comment unusual. > but if you were in the employee’s shoes would you really want the onus of all of this on your head? I would assume that if there was any doubt in their mind they could pretty easily go "I'll have to get my manager". If anyone with experience working at an Apple store can chime in that would be fantastic, but I suspect that a store manager in 2011 would have been able to approve installing software on a demo computer without having to go through legal. Presumably that changed pretty quickly after this stunt though.
    - Aeolun 5y ago
      No store manager in their right mind would approve this though.
Miner49er 5y ago
Do people not reguarly install software on display computers? Everytime I've used one (especially phones) they've been full of installed apps. That's illegal?
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by titzer 5y ago

tueirueiru 5y ago

The Secret Service is abbreviated USSS, not SS as that is associated with the Nazi Schutzstaffel.

titzer 5y ago
How do you know my mistake wasn't intentional? :)
- MrGilbert 5y ago
  That would make matters worse.

sellyme 5y ago

> Installing software on an entire Apple Store's set of display models because one employee supposedly "consented" is a serious violation of their property. I wouldn't have thought that the number of employees asked would be too important here (in comparison to e.g., seniority) - what's your minimum bar of different workers consulted before you'd no longer consider it a violation of Apple's property?

technologia 5y ago
These aren’t franchises where some employee can make that decision, the artist would have had to reach out to Apple’s legal team to get consent to do this at one of their stores. Yea that might be cumbersome and make the work impossible to do but if you were in the employee’s shoes would you really want the onus of all of this on your head?
- sellyme 5y ago
  > the artist would have had to reach out to Apple’s legal team to get consent to do this at one of their stores Oh that's the smarter thing to do for sure, but you're still going to be contacting one employee (who then potentially contacts other employees). I just found the emphasis on the quantity of employees in the GP comment unusual. > but if you were in the employee’s shoes would you really want the onus of all of this on your head? I would assume that if there was any doubt in their mind they could pretty easily go "I'll have to get my manager". If anyone with experience working at an Apple store can chime in that would be fantastic, but I suspect that a store manager in 2011 would have been able to approve installing software on a demo computer without having to go through legal. Presumably that changed pretty quickly after this stunt though.
  - Aeolun 5y ago
    No store manager in their right mind would approve this though.

Miner49er 5y ago

Do people not reguarly install software on display computers? Everytime I've used one (especially phones) they've been full of installed apps. That's illegal?

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