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So they aren't even hardwired to the net and can easily be jammed with commonly available Jamming hardware?




Pretty casual about committing federal crimes.

Argumentum ad legem.

Was slavery moral because slavery was legal?

Apart from that,the device's raison d’etre is committing federal crimes, namely violating the 4th amendment rights of private citizens. Previous case law has found mining historical cell phone location data to be a 4A violation requiring a warrant.


Couple things. I pointed out a risk, I said nothing about morality. If these devices are a fourth amendment violation, there's a solution that doesn't involve jamming.

Not an american, here in germany you'd barely get a fine if they even bother to prosecute you for using a jammer for a few minutes here and there. But I don't yet have to deal with ai powered surveillance cams by private companies in my city.

Well that is too bad. I am glad it is taken seriously here in the US because wireless jamming is a serious public safety issue.

> Well that is too bad. I am glad it is taken seriously here in the US because wireless jamming is a serious public safety issue.

Yet evidently we don't care about an actual massive public safety issue in the form of these cameras cataloging each person's habits and frequented locations and freely handing them out like candy to any organizations willing to fork out the cash.

Go figure, at least people can't jam the cameras, imagine how bad that would be...?


if the EU maintains it's current trajectory, you'll be dealing with this or a similar problem in the future.



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