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[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 72 points 8 months ago (1 child)

This happens every time there is blow back on something like this.

They will reverse course and slow walk it a bit every 3 or 4 months and we will be back here in a years time.

Someone's bonus depends on this deal at Amazon, they are still going into work tomorrow and they still want that bonus.

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[–] devedeset@lemmy.zip 11 points 8 months ago

Or they'll just build a backdoor into it (it probably already exists) and never talk about it again.

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[–] ugandan_airways@lemmy.zip 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It feels like the cat’s out of the bag and they will just go ahead with whatever they planned on doing with this partnership, but not be as open about it. Bury it somewhere in the user agreement.

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[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 29 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Agreed. For anyone not already following Louis Rossmann, he's a right-to-repair guy on an anti-surveilance arc and is always posting good information that will make you seethe.

His city tried to buy Flock cameras and he organized enough resistance that they cancelled... but then they are trying again a while later, assuming the scrutiny is off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MiLiQ6olkI

Ring will do the same thing.

Microslop, Meta, Google, et al will get their hands slapped when they are too proud about how they are fucking you, and then will issue a retraction, but only long enough to let the anger die out before doing it again more quietly.

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[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 1 point 8 months ago

They can also be, not to put too fine a point on it, petty dicks about it.

My city banned Flock cameras. So there are a bunch of them juuust outside the city limits. Since official city limits lag behind development they're at intersections you would otherwise think were in the city.