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License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows (www.404media.co)

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[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 39 points 1 day ago

This is the Peter Thiel world. Trump will die in his sleep of old age and one too many chicken nuggets, and Thiel’s puppet, Vance, will take over.

At which point all privacy will be off the table.

[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

Peter is a danger to all of humanity.

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

All my commie friends should stop calling me a sovereign citizen wanna be for rolling without a plate now right?

[-] far_university1990@reddthat.com 22 points 1 day ago

the Flock employee described the sorts of information the company will supplement ALPR data with. The first is data breaches.

That illegal obtained data, so illegal to use. They just admit to crime?

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

its not a crime if you are rich and evil

or more famously: cOrpoRatIons Are nOt PeOplE

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

A funny loophole. The person who stole the data did a crime.

Now that the data is public then it is free game because it is public information.

[-] far_university1990@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago

Windows XP sourcecode leaked 2020. Wine not touch it because illegal.

Same on nvidia leak by lapsus$.

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Because the source code is copyrighted, the fact that userA has an email address userA@gmail.com isn't copyrighted and so companies can ingest that data into their databases.

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

We desperately need a law against the third party doctrine loophole for the 4th amendment.

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

We needed that when Snowden leaked, now the political will is gone and the average person just accepts it because they get free services in exchange for letting advertising companies and law enforcement live in their pocket.

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I don’t think anyone accepts it. But nothing will be done about it until the capitalists are removed from power.

[-] pirat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

A tragical traffical tragedy. Flock off!

[-] hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

idcaboutprivacy

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Death to alprs

[-] entwine413@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Hasn't that already been a thing for a long time now?

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Yes. Each state already has this data.

[-] railcar@midwest.social 2 points 23 hours ago

Yeah but private enterprise didn't. And if commercial, Leo can buy it without a warrant

[-] entwine413@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago

Private enterprises can just buy the data from the state in most places.

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