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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

the Flock employee described the sorts of information the company will supplement ALPR data with. The first is data breaches.

That illegal obtained data, so illegal to use. They just admit to crime?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

its not a crime if you are rich and evil

or more famously: cOrpoRatIons Are nOt PeOplE

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

A funny loophole. The person who stole the data did a crime.

Now that the data is public then it is free game because it is public information.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Windows XP sourcecode leaked 2020. Wine not touch it because illegal.

Same on nvidia leak by lapsus$.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Because the source code is copyrighted, the fact that userA has an email address [email protected] isn't copyrighted and so companies can ingest that data into their databases.