Leave the 1800's weavers be, they had a hard enough go of it.

You could, instead, attempt to actually answer any of those questions. Because I'm noticing a severe lack of answers forthcoming and instead the masses are resorting the screaming insults and burying their heads in the sand. VERY disappointing from a 6-digit.

As a footnote, I'd add my surprise if people weren't already war-driving protests and getting a log of everyone present. At least to the extent they have a log of your phone's ID, which you can bet your ass they can tie to your ID if you've ever handed out your phone number or purchased anything or logged into anything with your phone. Leave it on airplane mode or put it in a faraday bag.

....THIS is what gets upvoted on Slashdot these days? Woooooooooow.

Y'all are going to have to explain how they show more creativity than humans.

How they can solve problems that require reasoning. Go ahead and simply ask it one. Or make up a new puzzle and ask it that. To any level of depth you wish to make it.

Or how they can solve things where brute-forcing the solution would take longer than the heat death of the universe.

Do any of you have any evidence it "put puzzle pieces together" to find novel cancer treatments?

Seriously guys, obvious neo-luddite mindrot propaganda? From people of your caliber? Your ID length?

Strike one, which is just shitty journalism: The linked news article doesn't link to the study. So no, this here slashdot article isn't putting out a paper that spells out what they did.

The University of Limerick has a page dedicated to it which links to the actual paper.

Go for it.

Yep. It's for security.... but not YOUR security. It's to let others be secure from the user. The "trust" part of the TPM isn't there to let you trust the computer, it's so others can trust it. Or, in this case, build up a database of who not to trust.

Cool. Cool cool cool.

So cancel every contract Flock has with any government organization, and remove them from government / public property, and this problem is solved.

It's so great we can be in agreement.

What a garbage argument. They sell it to the government. The government is partaking of these services. THE GOVERNMENT IS VIOLATING THE 4TH AMENDMENT!!!! ....using Flock cameras.

Was this really so hard to extrapolate? Now, if Flock wants to set up cameras on THEIR property and record things and NOT GIVE IT TO THE GOVERNMENT! Then, hey, sure, THEN you have an argument. But the moment that any form of US government made any sort of contract, Flock started performing actions for the government and the 4th amendment is being violated.

Agreed. That at least is a good take. And yet it doesn't change the fact that this citizen is very fucking pissed at the illegal programs being paid for with my tax dollars. So you can suck this relevant fact in this democracy.

Oh SO YOU KNOW IT'S A FUCKING PROBLEM! Because guess what the damn contracts with Flock or Axon allow them to do!?

I can't believe you explicitly wrote such a garbage turd and tried to float it on Slashdot.

ADORABLE.

Now, quick question: Do they sell to the government? Is the government partaking of these services? IS THE GOVERNMENT THEN VIOLATING THE 4TH AMENDMENT (using Flock cameras)? Then we have a problem here.

Seriously, do you also think the CIA murdering people is hunky dory just because a non-government corporation made the gun and the bullet?

I am a US citizen and shall be secure in my person and papers. If they have a dragnet of everyone's personal information (their location at all times) and have to search through it, they need a specific warrant signed by a judge.

But there's a simple test: Is your senator okay with someone following them around with a camera every moment they're observable from public land? No? Then applying this sort of scrutiny to the citizens is obviously bullshit.

Won't someone PLEASE think about the poor corporate overlords?

They're only violating the constitution so that they can hire more employees!

And frankly, all the hate goes does for the next Flock company. Axon? They KNOW how much people hare their rights being violated and they're doubling down on it?

Own things again?

The man deserves a heavy metal concert loud enough to wake him back up.

And I already know the perfect song for the perfect blend to blare into your morning espresso and summon the spirit of consciousness into your cold bleary-eyed body and broken soul.

I don't think so. I think this is another step in the enshitification process of offering you up to advertisers as a hog-tied roast on a silver platter. You ARE the product they're selling. Apple and Microsoft will welcome this as a good and just means of protecting children and fully support every effort to force users to identify themselves and give the companies all that succulent personal information that they currently have to pretend they don't have. When ordered to hand out that information to every program and website, they will be able to claim they're just following the law. Once every ounce of privacy and anonymity is stripped away, your account will simply follow you around they will simply know everything you do because the OS tells them exactly who you are and you will not be able to log into a computer without verifying your identity.

And the children that are installing Linux sure as hell won't be restricted by any such law they could ever hope to conceive.

I mean, really, we should all be calling this what it is: The initial steps to forcing your OS to dox you. The "dox-yourself" laws. Internet ID. Anyone that ever pretended any of these laws were ever intended to to anything to "protect children" is selling you and obvious lie or has fallen for an obvious lie.