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>I worry less about the police than I do about Amazon having this surveillance in the first place. The former head of the NSA sits on the board of directors and
by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>I worry less about the police than I do about Amazon having this surveillance in the first place. The former head of the NSA sits on the board of directors and they have multi billion dollar contracts for services to the intelligence agencies.
That's just being worried about the police with extra steps. An F15 doesn't stand on a street corner and a surveillance dragnet doesn't kick in your door.
- anigbrowl 4y agoThose extra steps are important because they create legal deniability. For example, local jurisdictions (or judicial outcomes) tell police they can't do X, Y, or Z because it's government overreach. So police just look for corporations that engage in those activities and purchase the data from them, with your tax money. So instead of the Stasi you end up with Corpsec.com, but it's OK because there's a middleman making a dollar, good old capitalism.
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoWhen the local police kick in your door it doesn't matter whether BigPerkyTips.com "made a technical mistake" told them you were a dealer or the glowies shoveled parallel constructed crap at them. In neither case will anyone be held accountable. Until we hold the people closest to the bad outcomes accountable for the bad outcomes nothing will change.