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This example is chosen because it’s gross. Nobody is pro-spitting. It’s less “ok” to people if you say “A public venue is banning an individual because she wor
by Spooky23 3y ago
This example is chosen because it’s gross. Nobody is pro-spitting.
It’s less “ok” to people if you say “A public venue is banning an individual because she works for a company our company dislikes.”
If you’re in this space at all, you should be concerned about this. If you live in a major area, hundreds of locations are running LPR on your car or have cameras capable of facial recognition. As more entities start exchanging that data, your movements are available to anyone willing to pay.
Once you open the door to this, it’s easy to go awful things in the name of quality of life. Perhaps your landlord doesn’t like your ethnicity or religion, won’t rent to folks who’ve spent time in certain places, for example.
- rahimnathwani 3y ago"Perhaps your landlord doesn’t like your ethnicity or religion" At least in the US, this type of discrimination is illegal.
- bsder 3y agoGood luck proving it. And the poor don't even have the money to access the system to get redress. How many groups in tech are a single ethnicity or religion managed by that same ethnicity or religion? I bet the number isn't small.
- Spooky23 3y agoSure. How do you prove that a landlord determined that your last name didn’t match some list and you’ve spent time in Dearborn, MI?
- cookieperson 3y agoIt's really hard for poor people or even moderately wealthy people to enter legal battles like these against corporations. A corp can delay trial for five yrs. Having a lawyer on retainer for even 4 months would bankrupt most Americans... The law isn't really about what's right, but who can pay to decide what is.