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‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops (www.404media.co)
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[–] 47 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'm a librarian. I also work with members of the public, some of whom do not share my understanding of reality. My information is still public because I'm a government employee.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Why the fuck would it need to be public? Especially in a country like the US where most of the annual reports of companies aren't public where people can actually benefit form.

    If you work for a company that company is responsible for the actions you take while working there. If you discriminate somebody in the library it is your library which is being targeted and then they will target you as well.

    At least that's now it generally works in the world, variations can exist depending on the area you live in.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Why would a librarians info need to be public? Does America require a public database of public servants?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    It's a public servants thing--the public wants to know what they're paying for, so public servant salary records are public.

    Various websites compile this information from the various state and federal sources. It's wicked easy to find information on, say, every public servant with the title "librarian" in Fake County, Kentucky.

    Knowing their full name, you can look up their home ownership records in the county real estate or tax databases and ta-da, you know where they live. You also know if they work part-time at a different public library, so that's convenient for stalking purposes.

    Edit: not that I think it's a good thing. It's creepy as all get out. If we have to post salaries, I'd much rather they be anonymized like on Glassdoor.

    Edit2: and these lists do get used for political ickiness. There's an anti-union group that mails out helpful tips on how to save money--leave your union. They even provide a "I want to leave" postcard addressed to your union leadership for you to sign, pre-filled-in with your info.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    You don't need to know who works at the library, you need to know the financial statements of the company together with the base on which the salary is based on.

    It always baffles me when I try to find annual reports of American companies and they are just not made public unless they are public. But for things like non-profits, or government owned companies it is especially important as well. Sadly it is easy to get a non-profit in the US, so people abuse that. Becoming a CPA in the US is also very easy compared to at least NL.

    Privacy doesn't exist in the US unless we are talking about companies.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    I think that's something they have, yeah. It's kind of unheard of to me. I can only imagine public servants like librarians or library assistants getting stalked, harassed, etc because their info is publicly available for anyone to access.

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