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New comment by markovbot in "LAPD Officer Killed During Training Exercise Was Investigating Cops About Rape"

markovbot — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 19:12:34 +0000

Where do you see anyone saying anything about punishing people based just on accusations? That's not something anyone in this thread is advocating for.

New comment by markovbot in "“Privacy”.com–Yeah Right"

markovbot — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 21:42:06 +0000

It actually wasn't that particular line that made me think they were selling personal information, it was mostly the other three points in that list which you seem to be ignoring:

* Each of Onfido’s and/or Provider’s third-party vendors may have access to the facial scan data

* Onfido is in no way linked to or responsible for the practices of other Providers. Onfido encourages you to read Company’s privacy policies and terms and conditions, as well as those of other Providers, which may apply to the use of facial scan data extracted from photos and videos.

* Onfido may disclose your personal information... or other third party where we believe disclosure is necessary... to protect your vital interests or those of any other person

New comment by markovbot in "“Privacy”.com–Yeah Right"

markovbot — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 17:57:33 +0000

how is that different from what the blogpost said?

edit: to be clear, the blog post has listed, among other complaints:

> Onfido may disclose your personal information to an actual or potential buyer (note "potential")

which you seem to be confirming from your own review of their policy. What did the blog post misrepresent?

New comment by markovbot in "“Privacy”.com–Yeah Right"

markovbot — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 17:06:20 +0000

Then why do they have all those incredibly questionable things in their privacy policy? What makes them "trustworthy"? I've never heard of them, but from reading this blog post it seems like yet another evil company trying to suck up PII from unsuspecting victims and sell it.

New comment by markovbot in "“Privacy”.com–Yeah Right"

markovbot — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 16:38:26 +0000

No, i didn't say that, nor did the post. You keep making these absurd leaps. Privacy.com advertises themselves as being private. I expect them to be private. They're the ones who chose to hinge 100% of their marketing strategy, all the way down to their name and domain, on how very private they were.

New comment by markovbot in "“Privacy”.com–Yeah Right"

markovbot — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 16:29:16 +0000

I think the ask was pretty clear: not to share confidential identification information with sketchy companies that are clearly sharing that information with everyone.

New comment by markovbot in "Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project"

markovbot — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 17:52:54 +0000

which is probably why the person you're replying to didn't say "July 4th only occurs in the US of A" but instead said "July 4th is only celebrated in the US of A"

New comment by markovbot in "Heavier cars are safer for their drivers, but far deadlier for everyone else"

markovbot — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 01:24:13 +0000

it's probably a train

New comment by markovbot in "Cloudflare lobbied FTC to stifle security researchers"

markovbot — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 20:35:18 +0000

not the one who downvoted you, but backblaze has similar pricing: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html

New comment by markovbot in "Give nothing, expect nothing: Gitlab latest punching bag for entitled users"

markovbot — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 08:19:11 +0000

the author of this blog post appears to be disagreeing with some people's attitude and explaining another view of the situation. They are not imposing on anyone's freedom of speech or (as far as I can tell) intending to. They are also just offering words, perhaps in the hopes of changing some people's minds.

I wonder, what makes this "useless" in your mind?

> “You didn’t pay for it so shut up you entitled free user” is one of those ideas that just don’t work in practice.

I agree with this, but not for any of the extremely dumb "reasons" you've provided.

New comment by markovbot in "Class Action Targets Experian over Account Security"

markovbot — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 21:22:24 +0000

I bet it would change if we started locking them up :)

New comment by markovbot in "Class Action Targets Experian over Account Security"

markovbot — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 21:22:06 +0000

So the people who funded the crime should just go free?

New comment by markovbot in "Class Action Targets Experian over Account Security"

markovbot — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 20:10:47 +0000

What would that entail? Do you think their investors, who have profited off the harm they've done, should face any repercussions?

New comment by markovbot in "IPv6 Only Cloud Server"

markovbot — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 02:10:17 +0000

Is there an API? I'm didn't see one on the home page. If not, what makes these servers "cloud"?

New comment by markovbot in "New Arizona law makes it illegal to film within 8 feet of police"

markovbot — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 20:08:20 +0000

This is pretty transparently a law to keep people from collecting evidence of bad police behavior. There's been entirely too much of that and people are starting to question the unaccountable armed gangs that roam our cities. To fix people noticing that this might be bad, Arizona is enacting laws to ensure the police can continue to brutalize without repercussions.

It's unfortunate that this thread is full of bootlickers doing mental gymnastics to justify what is clearly an unjust law, but this is HN after all

New comment by markovbot in "New California law requires high schools to start later"

markovbot — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 23:48:42 +0000

I can't tell if this is satire or you're just peak boomer

New comment by markovbot in "Lidar industry unites to make roadways safer for pedestrians"

markovbot — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 18:40:26 +0000

this comment would probably be a lot strong if Tesla didn't have such an abysmal safety record.

New comment by markovbot in "US prison slaves produce $11B worth of goods and services"

markovbot — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 22:48:30 +0000

wow, you got me. The fact that I can't personally purchase and own one of these humans means they're not slaves. As you know, the definition of slavery definitely includes something about slaves being bought and sold in a public marketplace.

New comment by markovbot in "US prison workers produce $11B worth of goods and services for little to no pay"

markovbot — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 21:19:22 +0000

the original title was misleading. It implied they are not slaves.

New comment by markovbot in "US prison workers produce $11B worth of goods and services for little to no pay"

markovbot — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 20:47:27 +0000

No, the disgusting euphemism is still live on the original site and was allowed to stay up on HN. The submission correcting the disgusting euphemism was flagged off the front page before this submission that we're on with was submitted.