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by MagicMoonlight

2 months ago

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What is it’s a mentally ill person who is about to kill themself?

That’s the majority of uses for the system in the UK. People love to run away and waste police time.

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iamnothere

2 months ago

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That’s not a good excuse for mass privacy violation.

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hedora

2 months ago

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“A mentally ill person called 911 and said they were going to kill themselves” is a much better justification for pulling GPS data off a phone than any of the rationales I’ve heard from US companies or the government.

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refurb

2 months ago

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What about the other 329,999,999 Americans who aren’t trying to kill themselves at that time?

It’s a cost vs benefit analysis and the cost is pretty damn high.

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hedora

1 month ago

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They’re not calling 911, so their phones wouldn’t respond with a gps location.

I’m not arguing all locations should be collected, just that “during a 911 call” is a really reasonable time to do it by default.

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refurb

1 month ago

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But the question is - does the functionality just open the door for everyone else?

If it could be adequately controlled so that it couldn’t, I would agree