• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
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    14 days ago

    Problem is, they still find it OK to make somebody’s life miserable as soon as he is suspected of anything.

    “Innocent until proven” has no real meaning, and I have never heard that someone got paid back for all the damage that was done to him during a false suspicion.

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      13 days ago

      I feel like somebody did that when they first came out and they created some kind of ridiculous over the top penalty for doing it.

      Its a bigger risk than I’m willing to take, but I would suggest if you’re going to go that route, try to get a wealthy and well connected friend to do it for you or have a good lawyer on retainer

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    14 days ago

    It sure would be a shame if the cameras started failing due to damage faster than they could be replaced.

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      14 days ago

      My immediate thought was that I’m sure they would just start weaponizing them to fight back so cameras could stand their ground.

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      13 days ago

      Somehow I missed that New Orleans had a secret partnership with Palantir for predictive policing starting around 2012 that was kind of revealed as a big scandal in 2018.

      Allegedly this has nothing to do with that… Allegedly… Absolutely nothing.

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        13 days ago

        I just saw that making the rounds today as well. Felt like one of those “we know this won’t be accepted so we’ll hope we don’t get caught until it doesn’t matter” moments.

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    14 days ago

    And it’s always used to harass a certain group, making that group nervous and causing things to happen so people from that targeted group can be arrested. That in turn is of course the proof they need to say the system is working.