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Your Car Is Tracking You. Abusive Partners May Be, Too. (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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She stopped responding to him, she said, even though he texted and called her hundreds of times.

Ms. Dowdall, 59, started occasionally seeing a strange new message on the display in her Mercedes, about a location-based service called “mbrace.” The second time it happened, she took a photograph and searched for the name online.

“I realized, oh my God, that’s him tracking me,” Ms. Dowdall said.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This happens again and again and again. At every level, public and private.

The answer is not "filter these people out of these jobs" because very often they have no prior records. Or sometimes someone gets phished. The answer is to stop enabling this in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can you speak more to what you mean by enabling? And who’s enabling who?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can you read the article first?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was asking the commenter to clarify their statement/opinion, not the fucking article but thanks for the rude ass comment dude:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But wasn’t it obvious that by “enabling” he meant the pervasiveness of privacy invasive things and company policies? In this case specifically the inability to turn off location tracking within the car. And I get it, a thief could disable it then as well, but they had her name since she was the one paying the loan, and a thief could also remove/block the cellular connectivity module.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

And why would I make an assumption of someone’s thoughts? Especially someone on the internet I don’t know in the slightest.

Fuck off dude, wasn’t even talking to you to begin with and you’re just out here picking fights

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Now’s the time to read your bio

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I’m respectful to start, you took away that respect from yourself when you made an ignorant ass passive aggressive comment to me.

Also your name is literally asbestos. Pretty obvious troll. Bye bye now.