In a real sense, the back end recognition that Flock does is exactly stalking on a massive scale.

It's not a matter of not being seen or even not being photographed every now and then. That level of privacy is not available in public.

But even in public, until Flock and it's ilk came along, we had the privacy of being just a face in the crowd. The people who saw you on main street were different from the people that saw you on 2nd street, were different from the people who saw you leaving your home. There was no database and no recognition software to stitch all of the sightings together to form a coherent record of your movements.

It's that tracking and recording that people object to.

EIU I suspect Lyft/Uber drivers will at best become surge capacity as Waymo expands if Waymo stays cheaper; resulting in drivers chasing fewer rides with little pricing power. As a result, the ability to make a living as a driver will be even worse than today. I also suspect the fight will shift to the political arena with drivers hoping the political clout of the SEIU will save them by getting laws passed to limit Waymo and / or raise their costs and thus prices. For example, I've seen where taxis tried to push limos and Uber/Lyft pickups away from curbside to make them less viable for customers.

Police reports,IIRC,are public records. A pattern of reporting would be worth bringing up at city council meetings. The way to fight is make it clear to elected officials their job could be at stake.

Under GA , law that is a misdemeanor. Mot sure if a private citizen can file a complaint about it but if they can they should; it would not surprise me if Flock installers were unofficially were encouraged to call the police.

This. Madoff didn't get in trouble until he started fleecing people who were richer than he was. Then it became an issue.

Per Apple's support document:

If it is illegal, don't use it. If you find it unacceptable to record and transcribe, don't use it. This isn't some new never before seen tech, there are programs that let you record audio on the watch already, and they keep an entire conversation not just a transcript.

Had he done those things, you would have heard me complain.

I simply don't remember being hassled to show anyone my vaxination card.

One advantages of this if enough data is collected on those roads then Google will have real data to base they routing on rather than speed limits which may not reflect reality on the road.

Last I check Google is a private company, not an academic conduction research under Stanford's name. There was no more tampering than any other routing and the users know Google going to recommend a route based on their algorithms, and this was simply can attempt to see how well they could work.

Don't think Google did it to me as I am not in the targeted cities, but a few times I've had WTF reactions to routing and said F it, I'm going how I always do...

I certainly agree, and find teh whole high and low art a bunch of BS. Some people like one thing and another a different thing, neither is better just different. The only thing the distinction is good for is for some pretentious critics to pontificate about things most people never read.

You saying /. is good for foreplay?

At the same time, improving technology has biisted productivity. Social Security will be fine for a long time if it captures some of that enhanced productivity rather than letting the 1% put it all in their pockets.

I would argue that giving the AI agency is like taking both hands off of the steering wheel and reading a book instead of properly driving.

Essentially there appears to be a hole in understanding. Whatever dark matter may be, if it exists, it must fit the hole.