Wanna touch on this point more & say that this is going to set a BAD precedent.
Corporations wanting/needing to make a quick buck can now just get a subpoena on as many people's accounts as they can for any bullshit reason & just sell the data to whoever is willing to pay for it.
@Pagan_GMR You know, I'm willing to bet that Rockstar is going to sell all these people's data from the subpoena to the highest bidder after they're done looking through all of it.
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The biggest red flag for me is the personal data grab.
They can’t even protect their own highly anticipated game… yet somehow people are fine with them collecting emails, phone numbers, IPs, and device IDs from tens of thousands of random users.
That information can (and eventually will) get breached and used for all kinds of shit. And the bootlickers still defend it.
@Pagan_GMR You know, I'm willing to bet that Rockstar is going to sell all these people's data from the subpoena to the highest bidder after they're done looking through all of it.
Rockstar has decided to a court order forcing Discord to surrender personal data from around 100,000 users. Most of them never leaked anything. Innocent bystanders got swept up because a multi-billion dollar company decided their leak hunt mattered more than privacy.
Now think about Discord is going push for age verification.
If they start collecting IDs and face scans “to protect kids” that data doesn’t stay locked away. The next time Rockstar (or any other giant with lawyers) wants someone, they already have a ready-made list of real names, faces, IPs and device IDs sitting there waiting to be handed over.
You can get wrongly flagged and still end up in their system. There is no real process. Just corporate power backed by a judge.
That’s why Privacy shall have exists for a reason. It is the only barrier to stop greedy companies and out-of-control platforms from turning every chat into a surveillance tool the moment it benefits them.
Governments corruption that let actual rapists, murderers and kidnappers walk free suddenly act like social media is the biggest threat to children. That priority is completely backwards.
Age verification plus data seizures is not protection for children. It is a permanent record waiting to be abused any time!
Fuck rockstar.
We have to fight back against government corruption and abolish age verification!
Did a bit of research on this yesterday.
This shootout happened right in front of a Flock camera.
There are 17 other flock-style cameras within a one mile radius of this event. The police have zero suspects, and have made zero arrests almost four days later. Some are owned by Motorola, some are owned by Flock Safety, and some are owned by Axon.
@Flock_Safety and like-minded systems are not about protecting citizens or enforcing the law. They are an attempt to nationalize the HOA system to increase non-tax related revenue from minor infractions in complete violation of every American's 4th Ammendment right.
Your local government doesn't seek to take criminals off of the street. It seeks more money from your wallet now that taxation has reached its natural cap, and the "ALPR" system is how they've elected to increase revenue from fines.
This will become more insidious when city governments start selling off that revenue to foreign nations for fast budget bumps, like when Chicago sold their parking meter revenue over 75 years to Abu Dhabi in 2008.
With a government run surveillance system this large, it should be impossible for crime like this to go unpunished for longer than 12 hours. Since we are not seeing that level of security, we should all believe instead that the system is not about security at all. City and state officials pushing ALPR cameras need to be removed from their office by any means nessecary.