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Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by hk__2 »

RyanOD wrote: post #64

Where I live, many people park at intersections right up to the curb making it almost impossible to see oncoming traffic from the right or left. Really scary when you have a 16-year old driver you're trying to keep safe. There is a very real reason why most intersections require drivers to park 20-30 feet away. Please think of the safety of others and adhere to this rule.

In Paris, France, they are replacing all the car parking spaces near intersections with bike ones, which is a lot better for visibility. But that’s a small-ish city where 65%+ of the population don’t even own a car.

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by Eisenstein »

dymk wrote: post #373
what wrote: post #370

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is that relevant? Do they publish the exact location of every vehicle in real time?

They keep that data for themselves, they don’t even tell you how much data they have on you. Why is it unfair that they also be tracked?

It might be fair, but is it a good idea? What you are doing is justifying something you wouldn't agree with because it targets people belonging to an organization doing the thing you don't agree with. That is can be problematic because

1. They now can say 'well it is done to us why can't we do it to others' instead of engaging with real arguments about using ALPR flock cameras to track people

2. You assume that a person working for an organization is automatically complicit in the decisions of that organization and is therefore fair to be targeted by systems you don't want targeted at yourself -- this is fine when in war or other struggles deemed worthy of placing aside normal human morality temporarily, but is this one of those?

3. This type of thing can turn into a race to the bottom where each side escalates compromises of their basic value systems

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by beeb »

rconti wrote: post #141
alexchantavy wrote: post #121

Oh wow this is from the same author as https://walzr.com/bop-spotter -- love these projects

I knew that domain name (which is blocked at work, for some reason) sounded familiar. So wait. cop-spotter is brought to you by the people who brought you bop-spotter?

dop-spotter is next

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by rocqua »

itake wrote: post #343
crazygringo wrote: post #339

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Accountability in terms of what has happened in the past , yes. But the idea that current public locations of identifiable public officers is not justifiable at all. That would be allowing individuals to be stalked in real time. That's not OK.

They are operating in public. They shouldn't have expectations of privacy. Are you against ICE agent tracking apps as well?

Tracking enforcement officials decreases their ability to enforce and makes them easier to target.

ICE agents shouldn't be doing their enforcement. Deserve to be targeted, and given there is very little transparency to their actions, anything to check their actions is an improvement.

SF parking cops are not evil, operate transparently, and limiting their capability to enforce is not important to keep rule of law applicable.

Public officer tracking apps can be okay, but only if you deem those public officers to be severely lacking in public oversight, and massively overreaching in their enforcement.

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Post by contrarian1234 »

e_y_ wrote: post #403
contrarian1234 wrote: post #395

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> tracking USPS employees ... that actually also sounds useful i don't see why they shouldnt be tracked while working

If we're talking about public tracking: package theft

Uhhh... Seems like the problem to address is crime? It's kinda crazy what kind of third world shit people just accept as normal now

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by drstewart »

larkinrichards wrote: post #285

offline now. It's a reasonable to expect that this information should not be available in real time to protect parking officers. It's already published daily, as mentioned in other comments.

Funny, people don't think it was reasonable for the FAA to do the same with protecting private citizens travel data

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Post by input_sh »

Jolter wrote: post #386
_giorgio_ wrote: post #377

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In interested in the hardware part. A microphone constantly listening. Not for the microphone, but for the IP protection, batteries etc

Edit: apparently it’s not running its own hardware. It’s piggybacking on some business called Orchestra?

It's a parody of a business. https://orchestraos.com/privacy

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by abduhl »

Wurdan wrote: post #408
abduhl wrote: post #405

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This is a wild hypothetical that tries to blame a tool for the problem of a user. Won’t anyone think of the children? Let’s modify your post to highlight the absurdity: Let's say someone sees a parking warden they find physically attractive. They follow them for a bit in their car and when they write up their last ticket, the stalker gets in their car and follows the officer back to the station and then to their home…

There's a gigantic difference in the ability of the surveilled person to protect themselves in the scenario you sketch versus the one that I sketch. In your scenario the surveilled person has a chance of noticing the fact that somebody is physically following them. And when they have eyes on the stalker, they can call the police to come and address the situation when they predict the stalker might escalate. In the sc…

What a strange line to draw when in both hypothetical scenarios the stalker actively engages in a creepy conversation with the target before “you see where I’m going with this?” happens.
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