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"Crimes" Next up, hunting drug users, people who get abortions, jaywalkers, the homeless, etc. Hyperbole? Yeah, duh, but also the reality a significant portio

• dazc 5y ago
  We are talking about speeding drivers here. The worst case scenario is that they get a small fine and may modify their behaviour as a consequence. Let's not descend into extremes.
  • edrxty 5y ago
    [Scene 1, police station conference room] "Yeah, our app has a full database, plate and facial recognition, geolocation, everything. We're on around 10 million devices in the state right now" "How hard would it be to add a button to report drug users too? You said you had facial recognition and GPS?" "Oh completely trivial, we'll just add a field to the schema and another ui element..."
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  • zionic 5y ago
    >We are talking about speeding drivers here. And? "Speeding" as is experienced in the life of the daily American is a joke. Tens, if not 100+ million Americans "Speed" every day. Remember that speeding is just 1 MPH over the limit, and that limits are set to unrealistically low levels all over the country for purposes ranging from revenue generation to empowering racial discrimination.