Can you imagine what would happen if they did that and your phone was stolen in transit?

Ghostbuster’s II throwback!

Bit late for what was essentially a foreseeable problem.

This person was subject to a whole FBI/local law enforcement team showing up to their place of work, questioning, arresting, and holding them overnight. They not only no longer have a job (you clearly didn’t read the article), but they also will likely not be able to enter the profession they spent 4 years in college to get into.

The closed laptop erased her lesson plan. I don’t know if you know this but teachers don’t get paid for overtime. They do a lot of overtime including writing lesson plans. There’s a lot of unpaid labor that goes into being a teacher and she wasn’t even a full fledged teacher (she’s basically an intern).

She has a bad day and it ended her career before it even started. Because a company that propagates it’s brand by marketing it’s private messages as private decided to surveil it’s users.

Most people? I think you should reconsidering your definition of “most people”.

Here’s the thing. It’s an off color joke. Snapchat didn’t report her “master plan” to smuggle weapons into the school.

It reported what was essentially a private vent session from a woman who is young enough to have lived through a lot of the security theater of the active shooter drills happening in schools across the US to this day.

It would be like a boomer or perhaps Gen X’r making a joke about bomb shelters.

Or a millennial making jokes about suicide or bomb threats (both of which are things a lot of millennials actually have made jokes about).

Is it a cool thing to say in mixed company? No. But she wasn’t saying it in mixed company. She was talking to her boyfriend. She had the expectation that it was a private conversation.

It’s extremely likely that she wouldn’t have made the same joke if she had known it wasn’t private.

In any case though, you don’t have to be okay with the joke to see that this is basically an algorithmic invasion of someone’s expected privacy and that is an overstep in the name of security that actually violates privacy for security theatre.

You mean to tell me they can scramble a whole FBI team in less than an hour for a “terroristic threat” that isn’t even viable, but they let all those kids get shot in Uvalde?

There have been multiple active shooters who actually posted manifestos online before they committed the acts and those guys didn’t get a visit from the FBI in full riot gear.

How many people do you know who have made a joke about killing their boss? When I was in the Navy, Marines used to deliberately make dead baby jokes for the shock value. It’s not okay, but it is a fact that it happens and that’s unlikely to change.

You’re arguing with me at this point.

Not the time or the crayons.

It’s not just you. There’s quite a few people who keep saying this. You’ll note that they don’t chime in to mention that Norway or Germany.

It’s dystopian as fuck that this is where we’re at, but I don’t think it’s a good idea to pretend this is strictly a US thing.

I love this “in the US” thing. Like we’re the only country where that’s true and there aren’t whole European countries doing the exact same thing.

While I admit nothing exists in a vacuum and there’s a lot of push toward a police state in the US, we also aren’t the only country doing that, by far. We’re just more open about it since Cheeto in Chief took office again.

The only reason it’s considered destruction of evidence is because he was “allegedly” under investigation.

I think what the other guy is saying is when you are traveling, wiping your device before you go to the airport, rather than doing so once you are essentially in custody.

I think it was stupid to give the distress pin when Graphene is already hardened unless he had something specific he was looking to hide, but I also recognize that ICE don’t need a warranty to search you and they can keep you indefinitely. So the other guy is also probably right that cops have a lot of time and resources. A password isn’t a good lock.

I also think nobody has thought about the fact that they want people to think that they have something to hide. They want us to be afraid. I think this drama about biometrics is a really good example. Scare people away from biometrics. Scare people away from Graphene OS. Leave us in the hands of tech corps who will hand over whatever they ask for.

That’s not though?!

At least I’m assuming there’s a difference between wiping a device in preparation to go to a border crossing and wiping a device while in police custody/being detained for further screening by Border Patrol.

My supernatural farming sim has done nothing wrong its whole life!

“Deprive them skeletons” is an awkward slogan, but it’s one I can get behind.

I think perhaps it’s just because I don’t do DM’s. I automatically assume DM’s are scams so I don’t read them or engage with them.

But I also have a (much older) Mastadon account. And I haven’t seen it there either. At least not to an extent where I find it noticeable and problematic.

Can’t say I’ve ever encountered this in the fediverse. On Reddit? Yeah. Facebook? Yeah. Tumblr, absolutely. Never seen posts asking for money for Gaza or anywhere else in all the time I’ve been here. What are you guys seeing and where because I am curious but also have doubts.

Yeah, I can see a use for smart glasses. Specifically in assisting the hard of hearing, those with partial blindness, maybe even people with other disabilities as well. But the upload of data and cameras recording people without their knowledge and consent is a problem. Not just a problem, but the problem.

But also our laws have a habit of not catching up to the reality of how people use tech to violate the rights of others and that really needs to be addressed. Not against consumers but against tech firms and manufacturers.

GPS, telematics(the driving data your car collects and sends back to the automotive company who built it), over the air updates, some SOS style features like OnStar, maybe satellite radio.

Edit: Maybe apps, and stuff like updates to the onboard owners manual (because some cars don’t come with a paper one anymore). Oh. And using your phone as a key.

Here’s hoping someone destroyed his portrait and the aging speeds up.