I know reading comprehension is hard, but even the summary has specific examples of police creating a policy to hide their use of Flock cameras. We're not talking about Flock being honest to the public. We're talking about police behavior.

Deliberately obfuscating or misleading the public about the mass surveillance abuse is sure to go a long way towards rebuilding all that public trust lost from all those police shootings.

They don't justify it. They just move the goalposts. "Oh the world didn't end this year? I mean next year obviously."

Home users aren't going to move the needle. Corporate users need to switch and it's not going to be to Linux when the vast majority of business software is made for Windows.

I think the real problem here is that Rockstar doesn't seem to know what the term "physical version" means.

No, it's easier to just post a fear-mongering article with no real substance. You can't have people actually *knowing* what tech is compromised or anything.

They bought a 10PB thumb drive from Aliexpress for $16.

The good news is, because of this it'll probably go very badly for Trump at the midterms.

He's already laying the groundwork to invalidate or take over control of the midterms to ensure that your vote only counts if it's for his toadies.

Get clowns.

"We take user privacy seriously and are committed to protecting user data

LOL, no you don't. Demonstrably so.

...they don't still have to deal with those jerks in Pod 6.

I'm not going back to Mr Pepper! I CAN'T DO IT, MAN!

"My laptop battery only lasts like an hour. Can you order me a new laptop?"

    -Every helpdesk ticket from someone who enables this

But that's not what happened. They posted the doctored image on Facebook and hundreds of people called them out on it. Then, without investigating, their response was to gaslight people, saying "The packaging is most likely foreign, and it is possible that whoever made the packaging used AI to make a clearly knock-off package" (they denied it in two separate posts). For an organization that supposedly specializes in investigations and relies on the public trust, AT THE VERY LEAST it makes them look wildly incompetent. So, either they fabricated evidence, or they're incompetent. This is not an "oopsie, our bad!"

The issue is not that an office screwed up trying to add a logo. The issue is that the department's response was to gaslight the public about it.

The core of the problem was that they initially denied that they did anything at all. It wasn't until after they were pressured to actually investigate that they finally admitted they doctored the photo. In other words, they straight up lied right from the get-go. Their default position was to lie about.