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		alistairSH on Sept 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Artist matches influencer photos with surveillance... Nope. Only through obscurity - it used to be difficult/expensive to track somebody’s daily movements. Now it’s relatively trivial to do so.

2OEH8eoCRo0 on Sept 24, 2022 [–]

This is where I have trouble. It obviously feels wrong to do at scale in an automated way but the only difference is that it got easier.

alistairSH on Sept 24, 2022 | [–]

Yeah. I feel the same way. And I realize I facilitate it with my phone and other devices. But still, feels creepy at best and dangerous at worst.

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