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how long until we find out that the brand new government/palantir deal is using these photos as well against citizens? i give it a year or less.
by toofy 1y ago
how long until we find out that the brand new government/palantir deal is using these photos as well against citizens?
i give it a year or less.
- bigiain 1y agoI look forward to the schadenfreude I will feel when someone makes the right FOI request and we discover this "feature" was built by Meta at the request of the NSA or the FBI or some other government TLA.
- Animats 1y ago> i give it a year or less. Yesterday.[1] [1] https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2025/06/26/jd-vance-meme-norwegian-tourist-denied-entry-us-phone-search-ohio/84369477007/ https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2025/06/26/jd-vance-me...
- blub 1y agoAccording to the thread on /r/europe that person smoked weed and lied about it on their immigration form.
- hedora 1y agoSo, they engaged in behavior that’s legal at Facebook HQ? In other news, FB has been using whatsapp metadata to coordinate genocide campaigns in Gaza. What’d all those dead civilians (including infants) do, again? Presumably they signed a TOS, so it’s OK.
- samtheprogram 1y agoI would love a source about the immigration form. That would at least make more sense. Weed is legal in half of the US. As a citizen, I find the story troubling. The tweets just saying “drug use” and then you hear it’s weed is ridiculous. Why wouldn’t they just state that they lied on their immigration form about drug use?
- xoxxala 1y agoBBC has a video on the story. DHS says it was drug use not the meme. https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c5y2l9nn7y1o https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c5y2l9nn7y1o
- mslansn 1y agoOf course the story was fabricated, but we live in a post-truth world. The mistake was believing the story from the beginning; the story was obvious nonsense.
- School-Cotton 1y agoWeed is illegal everywhere in the US. The federal government has a policy of, in most cases, not bothering to enforce the law in states that have stopped also making it illegal under their own separate legal codes. However that doesn’t mean it’s actually legal because federal law applies everywhere.
- Animats 1y agoIt's not a question on the Customs and Border Protection form for US visitors.[1] [1] https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/cbp_form_6059b_english_0.pdf https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/cbp_form_605...
- dzhiurgis 1y agoIf you have so much trouble government I don’t think deleting facebook will change anything.
- fwn 1y agoThis is the boolean privacy fallacy: the idea that if some large-scale violation of privacy exists, then nothing else you do is relevant for privacy. It’s seductive because it justifies complacency. On a theoretical level, it seems irrelevant whether someone has your data if anyone does. That abstraction collapses all distinctions and makes further choices seem moot. But in practice, this logic breaks down. Anyone who has worked with data or communication forensics knows that a single missing email thread can be the difference between understanding what happened and hitting a dead end.