loteck

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by loteck 2mo ago
It's like asking the prisoners in the panopticon whether they behave differently due to the risk of being watched. The answer is 100% yes, whether they know it or not. That's the point.
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by loteck 3mo ago
I came in to the thread anticipating a highly placed tptacek comment defending Flock without grappling with any of their numerous problems, and claiming that "regular people" love Flock. Weird how predictable that's become.
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by loteck 3mo ago
They simply didn't properly identify the vehicle because Flock's ALPR gave them the pass. The innocent person would not have needed "photo proof" of his distant location if the ALPR didn't exist in the first place.
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by loteck 3mo ago
We blame the technology because police misusing their powers is a tale as old as police, is demonstrably not fixable, and this technology is at fault for aggressively selling itself to police to give them these powers that we all know will
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Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime(timesofsandiego.com)
88 points by loteck 3mo ago|46 comments
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by loteck 4mo ago
In my city, our police recently reported that in one year, they searched the ALPR database 240,000 times. Of those searches, approximately 165 of them assisted any police case, in any way. What is ALPR being used for the other 99.8% of the
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by loteck 4mo ago
"Ownership" of data may have little or nothing to do with control of the data, depending on what other rights you agree to give up. Your Flock contract may specify your ownership of the data and then in the next sentence release t
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by loteck 4mo ago
It’s possible - tech is neutral The people creating, funding, controlling, developing, deploying and using the tech are not neutral, and the technology is indistinguishable from those people. In light of that, I would argue your assertion
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by loteck 4mo ago
Isn't PG's conflation of Denmark's high income tax with a proposed wealth tax a clear flaw in his math and argument re: "the highest taxes in the world"? Why wouldn't you instead compare to other countries that
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by loteck 5mo ago
What is libertarian about funding, building and defending government mass surveillance for money?
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by loteck 5mo ago
The data set IJ is providing here is situations where stalking was reported/suspected, investigated, discovered, and prosecuted. Other stalking cases could fail any one of those stages and be invisible to the public.
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by loteck 5mo ago
In my town, we have Flock. I request the audit logs that show how police are searching the Flock system. In November 2025 and prior, the logs were listed by USERID and I could independently correlate quantity of searches by USERID to detect
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Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests(ij.org)
271 points by loteck 5mo ago|109 comments
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by loteck 5mo ago
Where is this?
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by loteck 6mo ago
Since the crux of this seems to be about replacing middle managers, what do people think prevents AI from successfully managing 140 direct reports on day to day operations on behalf of a lone CEO? I'm reading "it doesn't work
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Arizona bill would require voter approval of government surveillance(azcapitoltimes.com)
26 points by loteck 6mo ago|1 comments
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by loteck 6mo ago
I wish people would care a lot less about sports.
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Marc Andreesen says he has a zero-introspection mindset(fastcompany.com)
13 points by loteck 6mo ago|6 comments
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by loteck 7mo ago
Where are the stories about all the other mail providers who routinely cough up everything about your email account, including full content, metadata, and full payment details, on a daily basis? Proton is one of the few services who accepts
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by loteck 7mo ago
Hi Cape team, I'd like a service like yours that allows private signups and that works continuously to prove ongoing private operations. I don't need huge data plans, I'm fine with WiFi mostly. It needs to cost way less per m
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by loteck 7mo ago
Can you please respond with a full throated opinion of what Palantir is today? This seems to be what everyone is thirsting for and what you are perhaps inadvertently dancing around.
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by loteck 7mo ago
Nobody who would be any good at the job wants to waste their life campaigning for it.
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by loteck 8mo ago
What city is this?
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Reminder that HN Active exists and is arguably better(news.ycombinator.com)
6 points by loteck 10mo ago|1 comments
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by loteck 10mo ago
HN's hidden Active section surfaces stories that are getting a lot of comments, which on its own is helpful. The most helpful part of Active is that it doesn't hide Flagged submissions. You may want to be especially aware of a sub
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by loteck 10mo ago
I appreciate this comment creating somewhere for people to discuss flagging. In my ideal HN you wouldn't be down voted but there would be a rigorous comment thread underneath it.
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ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team(wired.com)
248 points by loteck 1y ago|136 comments
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Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment(gadgetreview.com)
343 points by loteck 1y ago|152 comments
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by loteck 1y ago
From OP: Given that Salesforce support case data contains the contents of support tickets with Cloudflare, any information that a customer may have shared with Cloudflare in our support system—including logs, tokens or passwords—should be
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by loteck 1y ago
Any discussion of Salt Typhoon should start with the unusual fact that it is still an active and uncontained incident, despite having been widely revealed in 2024. Typically we are accustomed to discussing lessons learned during a post mort

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