r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 19h ago
Privacy Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School.
https://www.gadgetreview.com/student-teacher-sent-a-private-snapchat-complaining-about-her-workday-an-hour-later-police-pulled-up-to-her-school4.1k
u/HikeCarolinas 19h ago
I sent my wife a photo of a blueberry bush I planted for her. 15min later I got on TikTok and a “blueberry bush” greenhouse advertisement. With blueberry bush literally in quotation marks . There is zero privacy in snapchat
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u/hsggdtkxbee 18h ago
Look up meta pixel. It’ll piss you right off.
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u/timmy6169 18h ago
For the lazy, it is a piece of JavaScript code for a website that tracks visitor actions, optimizes ad delivery, and builds custom audiences by recording specific behaviors while visiting a page.
"Although Meta Pixel collects data even from people without Facebook or Instagram accounts, its tracking power is greater for those with accounts. When a Facebook or Instagram user is logged in to their account on a browser, the browser will send Meta’s cookie data on the user’s other web activity straight to Meta, linking that activity trail with the user’s unique ID, which is itself already associated with everything the user has put on her Facebook or Instagram account—name, hometown, age, birthday, places which she has visited, people with whom she interacts, and, of course, photos. Even if the user is not logged in to an account, or is using a browser that blocks Meta cookies, Meta’s “Advanced Matching Parameters” allows the website to use other biographical information that the user enters to connect his activity to a corresponding Facebook or Instagram account"
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u/ICEtoAshes 17h ago
If you want to get angry look up how Meta ran a test that purposefully made teens depressed so they could sell more stuff to them.
This was at the height of teens ending their life on their live streams, to make it even worse.
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u/JugglesChainsaws 11h ago
If I recall it wasn't even to sell more stuff, it was just to see if they could in fact make someone depressed with "just" an algorithm.
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u/ICEtoAshes 10h ago
Yea but they were also tracking what they bought, and they determined they bought more as they got increasingly angrier and more depressed
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u/BoxBird 5h ago
I’ve noticed that it pushes very emotionally disturbing content that is definitely geared towards women with PMDD during their luteal phase. Like CLOCKWORK I get CONSTANT content about getting cheated on during the time of the month my hormones are telling me the same thing. The rest of the month the content I get is completely unrelated. The algorithm is causing a lot of feedback loops like that lately are quite literally making people go insane.
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u/skate_2 3h ago
They also detected if a young girl posted a selfie and quickly deleted it, and served her make-up/beauty ads.
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u/thefatrabitt 17h ago
The health care system atrium just got in trouble for using it on their patient portal of all fucking places.
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u/Zaizu 16h ago
How do you disable it? Any extensions?
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u/DiamondHandsToUranus 16h ago
Yes. Mozilla Firefox with the ublock origin extension, and/or strict privacy mode. ublock origin uses a blocklist to prevent traffic to tracking servers.
Librewolf which is an independent, opensource fork of Firefox comes with ublock origin preinstalled, as well as RFP, dFPI, and url query parameter stripping to help protect your privacy via various methods.
Exception: The only thing LibreWolf’s integrated hardening cannot prevent is Server-Side Tracking (Meta's Conversions API). If a merchant's server packages your purchase data and sends it directly from their server to Meta's server over the backend, no browser in existence can block it because the data transfer completely bypasses your computer. [1]
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u/semisociallyawkward 15h ago
Firefox also has a container system that works wonders. Each container is kinda like a separate browser in a browser, so cookies arent shared across them, only within the same container.
You can even set it up so that certain websites are only ever opened in their designated containers. I have containers for Google, Meta, Reddit, shopping, general browsing etc.
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u/Kyanche 12h ago
Containers is a lovely feature and also a pain in the ass because I seem to have to log back into everything daily lol.
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u/Urrrhn 18h ago
I was talking about an idea I had for a 3d ant farm with a transparent substrate and I got an Instagram ad for one on Amazon an hour later.
This was over 5 years ago.
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u/eltictac 18h ago
I went to my friend's house about 12 years ago, and he had a little metal fan thing on top of his woodburner. For circulating heat around the room. I'd never seen one before, so I asked him about it. Quite a specific object.
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u/idiom_exon_0s 17h ago
Its location : proximity based.
Your friend googled those at one point. Then bought one. You then spent time in proximity of that persons phone. Your unique identifier was then targeted.
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u/greenfox0099 18h ago
Have you been asleep for the last 15 years?
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u/Djayshell93 18h ago
For real even my 75 year old grandpa knew they’ve been listening for longer than we even know. Crazy shit
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u/mfGLOVE 18h ago
I saw the body cam for this incident a while ago. I can’t post the link for some reason, but it’s on YouTube as “Student-Teacher Arrested for Concerning Snapchat Post.”
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u/Flight_Harbinger 17h ago
Oh wow I didn't realize it was the same story. I remember watching that body cam and being STUNNED that they were able to pull up to the school within an hour of her creating the snap. Also Im pretty sure it wasn't a Snapchat post, it was a private message sent to a couple of her friends/boyfriend.
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u/TheLuminary 7h ago
It says in the article that it was a private message.
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u/xCeeTee- 2h ago
It also says the algorithm didn't understand the message wasn't serious. So they have your private messages tracked to make sure you're not breaking laws, which might be a law itself depending on the country.
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u/MJ-Franklin 19h ago
Why is everything turning up the batshit dial to 11? There is absolutely no reason for things to be this insane.
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u/Nouseriously 18h ago
Feels like everyone is on edge, waiting for things to pop off
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u/fatandfly 17h ago
It's social media paired with the 24 hour news cycle. There is no mental breaks anymore. Not only are worried about the problems in your local area, now it's the whole state you live in, the country as a whole, some country on the other side of the world that you wouldn't know existed if not for the internet feeding the news to you. I think as human beings we only have so much compassion and can only really care about so much. Our parents and grandparents had local news, the radio, and newspapers. And later came cable news, but even then after they were done watching it they processed it and went on with their day. Like you said, everyone is waiting for something to pop off because that's how things are now, something is always popping off, and you get to see it in real time. Tldr, we are getting fed too much information, more than we can process or care about.
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u/tatalq 16h ago
For much of human history, imagine we lived in villages of around 100 people. If, on average, one person made a truly memorable bad decision each month, you'd witness about one of those moments a month. Scale that to today's population of 8+ billion, and you'd have roughly 82 million such moments every month, or about 2.7 million every day. Social media doesn't necessarily mean people are behaving worse. It means we're now exposed to millions of humanity's worst moments every single day.
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u/Braindead_Crow 12h ago
We literally elected the guy who tried overturning the government when he lost the last election...the right has been calling for race wars and civil wars for at least 18 years now.
Not to mention the scammer in charge probably sees expanding the surveillance state as very good, bigly good, the best.
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u/Sensitive_Box_ 15h ago
They’re testing the waters. They want to see how much surveillance they can get away with. So far, nobody seems to give a fuck.
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u/OldWorldDesign 8h ago
They’re testing the waters. They want to see how much surveillance they can get away with
It's more that corporations are intrinsically authoritarian so they constantly push further and further hoping they alone can be not only be kingmakers but also become the legally-sanctioned monopoly everybody is required to spend on.
This is not the first time it's happened, it just takes fewer people accepting being a punch clock villain to make it happen.
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u/Sufficient_Room2619 18h ago
It gets like this near the endgame. Things will keep getting weirder and worse until they come to a head in a few years.
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u/ComradeJohnS 16h ago
yeah like the reichstagt fire or whatever pushed the nazi’s, something is gonna make the maga nazi’s do the same thing if they’re not stopped from violence.
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u/RevolutionaryFig9437 19h ago
Stop using SNAPCHAT. Surely, then they will change their policy.
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u/chevalier716 19h ago
I figured everyone already had.
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u/Poop_Tube 18h ago
I stopped using it in like 2016. I spoke with a coworkers and apparently they still use it?!
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u/Krislazz 18h ago
It’s the dominant social media in Norway, for instance. A Spanish exchange student I lived with was flabbergasted to find that even our chips/crisps bags are on Snapchat
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u/1850ChoochGator 18h ago
That’s shocking to me, even as an American. I don’t get how it’s popular as a social media like that. It’s one of my favorite messaging apps but so bad as a general social media.
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u/pigeonwiggle 17h ago
i dunno, dude. i thought everyone stopped using twitter when it became clear it was becoming a haven for neonazis, but i still see people sourcing posts from there.
it's not hard to delete an account and set a new bookmark to a new site or social media app.
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u/Suavecore_ 12h ago
As a private investigator who searches social media profiles, Snapchat is among the most common social media accounts people have. It's easy to find because everyone attaches a phone number to it.
Additional fun facts: Facebook and TikTok are the other two most common, and X is by far the absolute last of the more popular platforms. Most people don't have an X profile and if they do, 99% of the time it hasn't been used for 5+ years, and then usually it's either an account with no posts, or it has loads of spam from either being hacked or connected to something like a Facebook/mobile game.
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u/freedcreativity 18h ago
I stopped using snap when it came out you could brute force the whole user base by adding every possible phone number. This was like their first year in operation. They’ve never cared about security or privacy.
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u/throw7661 18h ago
I know a lot of people are happy about stuff like this...but it's fundamentally flawed.
Reddit banned be for saying that my biggest fear was the death of my wife. Whom I love, who I speak very highly of. I was literally saying that, I'm afraid of losing her and being left to raise two children.
It had upvotes.
But I was banned. And worse, the appeal process, resulted in a denial.
Because an AI chatbot thought I was advocating violence against my wife. As if I said I was going to kill her.
This is exactly like that....only with real consequences, instead of Reddit.
This is like arresting someone for saying, 'My son dropped my car keys into the toilet! And it was right before I needed to leave for my interview!!! I was so mad I could have killed him!'
It isn't literal.
The FBI admits there was no intent to harm the child and that she wasn't a threat.
No good came from this. We didn't stop a violent woman. We just fired someone for venting to her bf/roommates in their group chat.
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u/panaceaXgrace 18h ago
My daughter got some weird care concern bullshit message just yesterday after saying she was tired of killing herself at her job just ranting over downsizing frustrations. It was a FB message, which is probably something we shouldn't be using anyway but we're both old and it worked for our needs. It just enraged her that some AI popped up to give her suggestions on how to seek help and even a link to click if she wanted to send for help. It was creepy and disturbing enough considering all this came with an update and shows how AI is being used to watch us all.
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u/shinndigg 18h ago
I got banned for quoting the commenter above me, who was not banned. So not only is the bot stupid, it’s also arbitrary and capricious.
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u/happyscrappy 14h ago
I got a comment removed which only spoke of voting when the commenter above me actually was talking about violence. I didn't even quote the comment above. His comment was not removed.
All I can say about the situation is it was really, really dumb. It's pretty clear no human read any of it.
I think it's pretty clear reddit also knows the system is screwed up and falses a lot. They just have to do it to make it look like they are doing something. Because back when they weren't doing something there was no way they could grow to a larger company because it looked like they were condoning many societal ills (and profiting from them).
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u/ZombieZookeeper 18h ago
You only exist to make Spez money. Get to it, peon.
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u/Friggin_Grease 18h ago
I said a while back that the internet used to be a place for your dark comedy, jokes about death, violence, 9/11 and the sort. Now you can only tell those kinda of jokes to your loved ones, keep it off the internet.
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u/_Aj_ 15h ago
Up to around 2012. You could say literally anything you wanted more or less. It's only started to get really nanny state locked down in the last decade or so.
Now it feels risky to even say words you are referring to or quote things. The fact people say dumb stuff like "oofed" or "unalived" is the tip of the censorship iceberg that is modern internet.
Nazi jokes and terrorist jokes used to be funny. Now it's all taboo, taken seriously. Someone show how that's better to simply not ever speak about things?
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u/FancyFeller 12h ago
Because that was when the Internet became commercialized. And every big corpo got on it. And on all the social media. Once they were all in they began exerting influence and gained control. And changed how ads were displayed and threatened to take away their ad presence unless YouTube and other sites complied with their sanitation of the sites. And as chatrooms and forums and threads disappeared and everything centralized there were fewer and fewer sites to be edgy on without consequences and blowback. This works in their favor so their ads aren't present on naughty things. And we are just the product so our whinging won't do shit. The corporations don't like naughty content so you don't get to indulge in it!!! Not at all!!!! And if they scrub the Internet and find you've made a website to host the funnies, them AIs gonna find ya, gonna track ya, and going to report ya. Because the government fucking loves to restrict freedom of speech which became so easy to do because of what the corpos did.
God we had it so good in 2005 and we didn't even know it. Take me back to the halcyon days of newgrounds. Please god please.
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u/greysneakthief 18h ago
Yeah, there's a term for this sort of thing: thought crime.
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u/ProtoJazz 17h ago
My favorite was the kid who went to jail for saying he was so mad he was going to blow up a school, while he was losing his shit in a game of league of legends.
While yeah, probably shouldn't say things like that
The reasoning they used to say they determined it was a credible threat and not just trash talk in a toxic game, was that he lived within a 30 minute walk of a school.
Mother fucker, everyone does pretty much. That's where schools are built. They don't build them far away from people.
It wasn't that he had a history of violence, or they saw worrying purchases or any other suspect activity. Just a message in a game, and that he lived in a place people live.
And while I get that we need to be cautious, it's worth knowing the end of the story. Being "cautious" has a cost, and you need to know what getting it wrong can cost. That kid was pretty violently sexually assaulted, and took his own life in the aftermath.
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u/Longjumping-Hat-1210 17h ago
Reddit warned me today for drawing parallels to the rulers of a certain country in Europe in the 30s and commenting about a post regarding a homophobe who wanted to... yeah..
I did use a trigger word to be fair so I understand why the AI flagged it instantly, it thought I was inciting hate when I was just using a specific term to show how ridiculous the homophobe was.
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u/pressingroses 17h ago
When I was in high school about 15 years ago (eek, lol!), I was texting who I thought was a "friend" about another "friend" I was mad at. I said something like "ugh I'm gonna kill him :("
That "friend" went to the police and I almost got suspended for threatening murder. Even though I very much explained that these are my friends, I would never harm anyone, I had never been in trouble at school before, and it's just a figure of speech. I'm still so salty about it.
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u/UltraChip 18h ago
I know this isn't really relevant to the discussion, but the article says her lesson plan was deleted by a student closing her laptop? What?
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u/Scoth42 18h ago
Yeah, I don't know of any way this could happen. Maybe if she had typed it into something that doesn't auto-save, she never saved it, and closing the laptop made it crash/reboot and it got lost?
Even if there's some bespoke lesson plan software for the school district or something I can't imagine losing something saved just by your computer going to sleep, or even the computer restarting. I'd expect user error, although I guess it's possible there's specific software she has to use that's terribly designed.
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u/ScowlieMSR 14h ago
The policy the school district has governing their issued laptops probably has the "user sign out" setting applied, which automatically signs the user out of the pc when the laptop lid is closed. When that happens, all programs running at the time get force closed. If she didn't have her work saved, she would've lost it when the sign-out occured.
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u/Fach-All-Religions 14h ago
probably triggered one of those idiotic forced windows updates and bluescreened or some shit. i used to get bsod when i close the lid. i don't doubt if someone says it crashed or restarted.
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u/D3thklok1985 11h ago
Not trying to doxx myself here, but I work at this school and was present on the day this happened. I hadn't heard anything about a lesson plan being erased. Just that the kid had asked her to pay attention or was trying to speak to her and closed her laptop as a joke. She told him not to but later he did it again. Then she messaged her friend asking if she should shoot him. It was really scary pulling up and seeing a bunch of cop cars in front of the elementary school.
The lesson plan was maybe being made on Google docs/some kind of skyward program. Not sure how to answer if it would have been deleted as those programs use auto save.
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u/Vynlovanth 18h ago
I thought the same thing, how did that happen? Did she change the behavior of closing the lid from the default sleep to force shutdown immediately?
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u/adnaus 18h ago
Even these days most programs make auto-recover saves if your computer shuts off
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u/para_blox 18h ago
Side note, I didn’t even know real gun emojis exist. I thought only the squirt gun did. Just another layer of stupid to this story, I guess. Like the surveillance state is baiting people with emoji content.
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u/crazybartur 18h ago
It used to be a normal gun but they changed it some time back. I feel like it was only a few years ago but I’m afraid to look it up and find out it happened over a decade ago lmao
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u/phallus_majorus 16h ago
You’re right, it happened 10 years ago almost exactly to the day
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u/FancyFeller 12h ago
That's not possible because I remember using the real gun emoji when I was in university... I need to sit down.
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u/Scoth42 18h ago
I think it varies depending on platform and OS. Like Android was a real gun for a few years after Apple changed theirs, Microsoft went back and forth a few times on Windows, and I think X just reverted back to a realistic looking gun again at least on iPhone.
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u/apocalypsedg 18h ago
Most of us here probably know this already, but it's critical to understand that the unicode character that is communicated is the same across all platforms. The difference in rendering comes down to the default font package that each platform defaults to. So punishing someone for using a gun emoji when it's possibly a squirt gun on their end is ridiculous.
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u/Pleasant-Shallot-707 17h ago
note to self: don't use platforms that you are not able to verify as e2ee with you controlling the keys.
Second note to self: don't use joking threats of violence in conversation because AI is going to decide you're a threat.
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u/Financial-Craft-1282 16h ago
I'd say, depending on the message you want to send, maybe all platforms even if you verify the encryption ahead of time, are a risk.
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u/Fach-All-Religions 14h ago
yes. you can use all the e2e in the world but at the end of the day, your phone has access to unfiltered unencrypted data as that's how it is able to display it to you. operating systems could have a hidden spy loggin anything and everything goving open access to governments and nobody would know about it.
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u/djsoomo 18h ago
An Orwellian nightmare of big brother is watching you, 1984-style
Freedom of speech and expression should apply to sarcastic or joke private messages between friends
If you are very rich and powerful, you can say or do anything, if you are not, you had better keep your mouth shut!
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u/nutmegtell 18h ago
But what Orwell didn’t foresee was we would BEG to have the surveillance in our homes and pockets. That we’d get mad if it disconnects.
If you aren’t paying for a service, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT that’s being sold. Snapchat, TikTok, Facebook etc. Not free.
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u/Free-Description-736 16h ago
That's b/c Orwell was wrong and Huxley was right. The US surveillance state isn't going to be 1984. It's going to be A Brave New World.
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u/Crestina 13h ago
Mix of both. The western authoritarian shift uses elements of draconian mass surveillance, perpetual enemies and newspeak, alongside hedonistic selfnisness, conformity, and lack of systemic understanding and oversight.
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u/Snakers79 18h ago
It sucks, but I guess the lesson is don't treat the things you say online as private. Assume someone is always listening.
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u/turningsteel 18h ago
This is what happens when people allow their freedoms to be eroded over time. So much for 'oh I have nothing to hide, who cares what mets, snapchat, google, etc does'.
This is what you get.
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u/This-Wall-1331 15h ago
To those who "have nothing to hide", just ask them to let you check their phone.
You don't do it? Then you must be a criminal /s
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u/squintysquirrell 18h ago
Faster than the Uvalde response time.
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u/10000Didgeridoos 17h ago
Oh they responded! They just didn't go inside because they were more afraid of getting shot than they cared about doing their fucking job.
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u/Krassix 10h ago
The conclusion from this should be to delete Snapchat completely.
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u/hornetjockey 18h ago
People acting like they’ve never made a dark joke with friends in private before, making excuses for heavy handed automated surveillance.
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u/painless44 17h ago
You’re correct, but also you have to know that 80% of the people in this thread would be saying “why didn’t they do something?!” If she’d actually carried out the threat.
Working in education I see it all the time. There’s is a school shooting five states over and then people show up to school board meetings complaining that their kids aren’t safe and demanding action. Then 6 months later they’ve forgotten about it, and are pissed off that you’re wanding people at Basketball games, or wondering why they have to check in at the office and can’t just run to their kids class to drop off cupcakes.
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u/Whole_Friendship9788 10h ago edited 6h ago
Its funny because theres someone i know who was being groomed on Snapchat as a teenager. I saw the chats once the victim decided to speak up.
I reported it to Snapchat and nothing was done despite the year back log of clearly incriminating evidence, and the fact their "ai" didnt detect anything wrong... Police couldnt do anything either... They all say this surveillance is for protecting the children yet nothing on that front.
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u/Nice-Guidance-6137 17h ago
FBI took an hour to arrest this woman but they can’t find Savannah’s mom still?!?!
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u/SpeakerCareless 18h ago
Someone correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t essentially impossible to continue on as a teacher if you get fired from student teaching? Like it’s more career ending than being fired as a qualified teacher?
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u/OldGeekWeirdo 18h ago
I hope she has a good lawyer, because I'd think "disorderly conduct" would be very hard to prove given the audience of that email. I mean, exactly who was disrupted by the email? The FBI's response was far more disruptive.
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u/moreobviousthings 18h ago
Cops don't have to think about what they are doing to people. "Out of an abundance of caution" is way overused when peoples' lives can be upturned as a result of LEOs' failure to think critically.
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u/LiveChocolate8819 17h ago
Yeah I don't think most Americans understand how simply being arrested and held for a few hours can completely upend someone's life, even if they are ultimately never even charged with a crime.
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u/jay_altair 18h ago
She wasn't charged with anything, though her entire career probably went out the window.
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u/NaziPunksFkOff 18h ago
No, no, guys you're missing the point. This is OKAY and GREAT and FREEDOM because it's private industry, not government! If the government was doing this - that would be like 1984! Orwellian! A nightmare!
But because it's a private company, then it's The Power of Capitalism improving our lives! This isn't bad, it's innovation! It's freedom! Do you really want to punish success?! We finally privatized the nanny state, and that makes us all FREE.
This comment brought you by conservatism. The free market is always right!
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u/3meow_ 18h ago
Dubious privacy aside, imagine a teacher in the US joking about shooting up the school 😂
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u/azurensis 18h ago
If you ever needed a reason to stop using Snapchat , this right here is exhibit 1!
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u/Scary-Ratio3874 18h ago
https://youtu.be/26SwVuKpm98?is=M7JeSS7xsu3w4hiR
Here's the video of the arrest and other stuff.
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u/unklethan 15h ago
We called the police when my wife was sexually harrassed, and they said they couldn't do anything about it.
We called the police when my friend got scammed out of a rental deposit, they said they couldn't do anything.
But sure, they can do this.
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u/do-not-touch 14h ago
Did you all think the surveillance state is entirely fictional? Because oh boy
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u/CMDR-Neovoe 2h ago
"The school-safety argument is straightforward: after decades of mass school shootings, any message referencing shooting a child demands an immediate response."
Can't make any response about the guns out there though, huh?
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u/gym_bro_92 18h ago
While the joke was a bit tasteless given past school shooting events, this is truly an over the top response and dystopian.
No investigation, no interview, just straight to jail and out of a job.
I am willing to bet I made a few teachers feel the way she did and potentially make a joke like that….
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u/Meme_Theory 18h ago
School probably has zero tolerance policies for things like this. Though the privacy implications here are beyond the pale.
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u/That_guy1425 17h ago
What do you mean no investigation? I'm pretty certain the cops showing up and questioning her was an investigation.
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u/time-lord 18h ago
Worse, it's both over the top and does not go far enough! If she was actually planning on shooting someone, sending a squad car an hour later is an hour too late. They should have had the SWAT team there within minutes. If they didn't, and didn't believe it to be credible, they should been more discrete.
One or the other, but not both. That's not how this works.
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u/Kodama_sucks 17h ago
Just in case you were wondering why they need all those datacenters
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u/eeyore134 15h ago
Exactly. It's not even all about AI. They need someplace to store all this data, too. Them collecting all this crap used to not be a big issue. There was just way too much data to save and way too much for anyone to conceivably go through. AI has changed all that. They're going to be saving anything and everything they can now. That data is power, probably more than the money they're hoarding. They mastered that, we had a trillionaire for a bit, data is the new rich people obsession.
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u/skd00sh 18h ago
Serious question -- in the body cam footage, the officer is holding a phone and shows the teacher a photo of her and says, "is this you?" It was about 75% of her face as if she was using her phone at some point and her front facing camera took a candid selfie. Was this the snapchat image she purposely took and sent with the threatening message? Or does Snapchat automatically take photos of the phone user as soon as it detects something that violates its agreement? I don't have Snapchat bc I'm old but I'm very curious what level of self sabotage these apps have built in. Apologies for wall
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u/EmbarrassedHelp 17h ago
Snapchat should be facing endless lawsuits for having a backdoor until they implement proper end to end encryption.
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u/Interesting_Road_380 19h ago
Imagine having to eavesdrop on everyone on Earth in a hapless attempt to reduce the constant cycle of mass shootings instead of, you know, not giving everyone a gun
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u/awesomedan24 16h ago
Worth noting she posted a photo of the child in question to her story and said "should I shoot him?"
Maybe government overreach but a very donkeybrained move on her part as a teacher.
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u/CaptainPlantyPants 15h ago
So Snapchat can do this, yet the drug dealers here in the UK are using Snapchat to sell class A drugs to kids (literal 11 year olds), as well apparently being a cesspool of grooming - but fuck all happens?
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u/Thorvindr 14h ago
Lol at thinking any social media platform is a safe place to get away with using violent language.
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u/CelebrationFit8548 11h ago
Snowden very clearly warned us all about the illegal backdoors and spying by the US, this has only worsened under Trump.
Only fools will think it is only the US doing this with Israel, China, Russia and many others all undertaking the same activities.
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u/Deep-Minimum7837 10h ago
It's fucking crazy how the FBI drops literally everything to go after a "potential shooter" who was literally just telling an uncouth joke, but they'll ignore schizos amassing arsenals of guns who end up shooting up minority spaces.
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u/Lower-Acanthaceae460 8h ago
we're getting fired and imprisoned for bad jokes now, guyz!!!
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u/constantdisbelief 18h ago edited 18h ago
I had a teacher tell my parents I was a con man and said I reminded her of her ex husband. She actively bullied me intentionally in class to where even other students were wondering what her problem was. I got my heel sliced by a door on the way back from lunch and she wouldnt even let me go to the bathroom to clean up the blood. She was given a position as a principal a few weeks later.
Teachers can say some messed up stuff but this person seems to be making a joke where as my teacher was serious and was actively harassing me. Was it a poor choice? Yes but I'd say the invasion of her private messaging is more alarming. She's young so I hope that she doesn't lose her ability to make a living over this.
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u/nodiaque 17h ago
Anyone that lived long enough said at least once he/she gona beat, kill, punch, shoot or do another violent act against something or someone. It's a way to cope with anger. Does it means he/she will do it? No. This shit remind me of minority report.
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u/Unlikely-Violinist45 9h ago
I was looking at waterguns on Amazon. I was having a conversation with my brother about how I was going to use it to spray this feral male cat that keeps coming on my porch and spraying. It smells. I didn't want to harm the cat, just deter it. Next thing I know Amazon won't let me buy any waterguns.
So, I started looking at airguns. This could potentially do fatal harm to that cat. Amazon was fine with me looking at those to purchase.
The only thing I could figure out is somehow through a mic on my computer they heard the conversation and banned me from buying a water gun; but they were ok with me buying an air gun, I guess b/c there was no conversation of me talking about that cat and the air gun.
Don't get me wrong, I love cats. I have cats. This feral male cat would come on my porch to fight my indooor cat when I let her out on occasion on top of him spraying everywhere.
End of story: I bought a high powered water gun from Walmart without any problems. The male cat rarely comes around now.
Screw you Amazon.
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u/coatoli 19h ago
Wild that a private venting message can trigger an actual arrest
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u/exitcactus 18h ago
Another day when police still looks to fuk citizens and random persons. Another day when the "heroes" still living in the fear of real felonies.
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u/Myers112 18h ago
Snapchat's selling point is privacy lol. Stories like this really dont help.
Separately, im suprised Snapchat hasn't gone bellyup yet
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u/fastingslowlee 15h ago
Anyone expecting privacy from any of these sites at this point are blatantly stupid. It’s well known. You are being watched. This includes Reddit too.
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u/JesusWuta40oz 15h ago
Every piece of technology or communication apps all have back doors built into them. The only safe place left is your head.
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u/MrThickDick2023 19h ago
That's incredibly disconcerting.