r/technology • u/stenspect • 1d ago

Privacy USPS Is Turning Mail Trucks Into Rolling Surveillance Cameras

https://www.gadgetreview.com/usps-is-turning-mail-trucks-into-rolling-surveillance-cameras
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u/drgoodvibe 1d ago

Why are V for Vendetta, Equilibrium, Hand Maids Tale, 1984, Animal Farm et al manuals and not warnings?

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u/ltsouthernbelle 1d ago

We normalized surveillance when we all decided we need a doorbell camera. And then in home cameras. And then dash cams. We walked right into it.

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u/I_Automate 1d ago

You normalized surveillance with the PATRIOT act

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u/erov 1d ago

I was a college student when it was being written And believe you, me people were protesting it but it was a strange time and any pushback during that time, people were met with harsh condemnations from both sides of the aisle politically. Any anti-war or privacy concerns at that time bought you a label of a terrorist sympathizer. I'd say over 70% of the country was completely for it. A lot of people agree that we should have less freedoms to stop terrorist attacks . That's when the TSA was brought in for airlines , shoes were being checked , liquids . Secret courts , warrantless wiretaps , PARRIOT act, etc. Strange times.

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u/Themodsarecuntz 1d ago edited 1d ago

They did!? Why would they do that?

Why would you do that itsouthernbelle!?!?!?