by collinmcnulty
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- I am reminded of Eisenhower's Chance for Peace Speech: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_for_Peace_speech
- I wonder what position Apple will take on this.
You can't trace ICE agents (IceBlock app)
But will ICE be able to track immigrants using whatever Apps are created here?
Scary times we live in. Stay safe everyone.
- The story that is being spun and maintained by news entertainment outlets like Wired is quite impressive.
Even more impressive is how effective it is to pull small sleight-of-hand moves, like referring to these processes as “immigrant-tracking”, as if the federal government is somehow at war with immigrants. One really has to admire the raw narrative-building chutzpah of these outlets.
- So, the Henneicke Column returns…
by an0malous
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- This will be flagged off the front page within 30 minutes
by givemeethekeys
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- There's even a bounty to report your neighbors.
by stackghost
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- Too often on this site you see the opinion "keep politics out of it" expressed.
But there are going to be software engineers working at these surveillance and tracking firms, probably some on this site.
Just like there are people here getting paid to work on Facebook or Instagram despite knowing deep down (even if they're in denial) that those products are profoundly harmful to society at large and young people in particular.
Technology is only becoming more intertwined with daily life, not less. When does the software industry develop scruples?
- This an excellent example of a program that'll print money for fraudsters while also supporting a policy with arbitrary and cruel quotas.
Oh how far we've wandered from that old promise of "small government".
- I remember some similar threads. They seem to be utilitarian.
by visioninmyblood
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- Wow that is crazy may be YC next funded company will be on this. But there are so many ethical considereations here. Tracking immigrant means they will track citizens as well. We need to see how these companies are moderated
- It seems like tracking down 10M+ people would cost more than $280M.
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by nine_zeros
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- America is a third world thug state where people are being targeted just because...they showed up on a computer system.
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