I was more thinking of clever defense attorneys that used cellphone tracking data to corroborate their client's alibi. Prosecutors are not always so precise, after all.

Aside from the fishy opt-out procedure, what else is going to happen to people that opt out? Local law enforcement probably won't like having holes in their data, especially if Fog Data Science provides the identities of those who have requested opt-outs.

How often is cellphone tracking data used to exonerate the innocent?

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Take your partisan bickering back to Fark.

Hasn't the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists been making similar predictions for decades now?

The people that might actually deploy them.

Would like to see the data on that claim. BYD (and other Chinese automakers) are notorious for selling data collection platforms. American automakers aren't much better in terms of what insurance companies have been able to scrape from drivers (often with direct support from the manufacturer). But it would still be good to see a breakdown of what each brand logs as well as what it transmitted to where during the lifetime of the vehicle.

Never said it'd be cheap. But let's be honest, how much longer do you think we can get away with pawning off tech manufacturing to other countries before they either raise prices or it bites us in the ass?

The bribery angle is possibly true, but are you really complaining about an administration finally recognizing that consumer routers are full of backdoors and at least playing at securing them? We've needed to address security vulnerabilities in consumer AND professional networking equipment for some time now.

Would-be newcomers that manufacture their equipment stateside can bypass restrictions entirely.

Depends on who is making the post and how many sockpuppet accounts they have to mod themselves up.

High-pressure CO2 is corrosive? That's . . . interesting. Sorta makes sense though.

Okay, so they can use an ablative layer for insertion. After that it's just the extreme heat and pressure.

Isn't the surface of Venus highly-acidic thanks to sulphuric acid rain?

It depends on the controlling authority for individual utilities what will be their policies. Most local utilities are government-controlled affairs that get caught up in whatever public/private boosterism prevails in the local political scene. "Pro-business" policies usually include some incentives for locating your business in a particular city or county. And part of that may be a sweetheart deal when it comes to utility hookups (which inevitably leads to costs being passed somewhere else). These policies typically were not enacted with datacentres in mind. Datacentres rarely employ many humans these days (at least not local to the datacentre itself), meaning that economic/wage growth doesn't necessarily follow their construction. And yet, local politicians are still greenlighting these things wherever they can, utilizing the same public/private mechanisms used for other types of businesses.

Yes, theoretically, local utilities could start charging more money to datacentres for hookups and/or capacity expansion. No, it's not likely to happen. At least not until politicians start representing their constituents.