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You'd need to have some causal pathway from it pinging too often through people getting irritated to removing the scanners that were doing the excessive trackin
by kragen 11mo ago
You'd need to have some causal pathway from it pinging too often through people getting irritated to removing the scanners that were doing the excessive tracking.
Police forces are not the only ones who can use this information. Foreign intelligence agencies, violent insurgencies, and drug cartels can also use it.
- cogman10 11mo agoThe rub is that the information is something that regular drivers need access to. If I get into a car accident, I need some way to know who hit me in the case they bolt from the scene. And that's what makes this a hard problem. I don't think there's a solution that allows me to address a hit and run and would prevent the groups you mention from similarly tracking people.
- kragen 11mo agoAs I said in another subthread, it would be surprising if the solution were not worse in some way than the status quo ante; after all, we're looking for a solution to the new problem of mass surveillance, not taking advantage of a new opportunity.