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ADSB Exchange, the flight tracking service using open source data, has now been suspended.
This shows doxxing is now just an empty word, devoid of its original meaning. Also I’m interested what “legal action” would look like against a college student who published public information. What did he do that was unlawful?
More than two years after BuzzFeed News revealed to LAPD leaders that their own officers were secretly using facial recognition software Clearview AI, the department still has not set up ways to adequately track the use of facial recognition by staff.
This was Nov. 2020, when LAPD leaders said they would institute new policies on the use of facial recognition. Based on the inspector general's report mentioned in the LAT story, the department is still unprepared for how to deal with the technology.
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Elon once tried to get me to write a story that a Thai-based British man, who had criticized him, was a “child rapist” and took a 12 year old bride based on information someone sent him. That someone ended up being a conman pretending to be a private investigator.
Elon Musk has said he's about context on tweets, so here's context for these shirts: They came from Twitter's Black employee resource group and were popularized by @jack , who wore a version around to conferences to support the group (and was sometimes ridiculed for it).
Google cofounder Sergey Brin at SFO protest: "I'm here because I'm a refugee." (Photo from Matt Kang/Forbes)
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