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The typical response if someone comes knocking is ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about’. And really, how would they prove it unless you left a stack of print
by lazide 4mo ago
The typical response if someone comes knocking is ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about’. And really, how would they prove it unless you left a stack of printouts next to the door?
Now they could prove it was your printer (and that has happened multiple times in prosecutions!), even if you printed it years ago.
You don’t see how that is a problem?
- Grombobulous 4mo agoI think there are a lot of things that are potentially problematic where we depend on having a functioning society with real legal protections and due process. Nobody can come in my house without a judicial warrant. And, hopefully, someday there are better privacy laws in the US that mean that Microsoft must handle its collected data more responsibly. If your society has succumbed to serious oppression, does evidence really matter anyway? If the cartel is knocking on your door, do they need evidence to do what they want to do? Evidence itself is just evidence. It can condemn you and it can exonerate you. If it can be proved that something came from my printer, that means my lawyer can also prove something didn't come from my printer. I am by no means saying that I would personally willingly sign up for telemetry, or that I think it's better to have than not. I'm just not in alarm over it because I think that response is disproportional.
- lazide 4mo agoClearly you haven’t been reading the news? This is just ignorant.
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