dave_r

“Lost” seems a bit too much - how about unmanaged?

Interesting - they sell not only repairable phones but OEM phones with the /e/ os (degoogled Android).

Alotta lotta justification on that mail…

This is a classic feedback problem: you use a microphone to amplify your voice, but If the mic picks up the amplified sound it creates audio feedback + a sharply increasing wail.

I can’t imagine what LLM feed back ‘sounds like’, but a guarantee you it ain’t pretty.

If I read it right: the government is paying for commercial (phone) location data. There are 3 issues:

• creepy: the government shouldn’t have this
• costly: they are buying it with our tax dollars
• comprehensive (?): They are getting everything (money can buy)?

If the government were to require this (like via a search warrant) rather than pay for it it would go through a mountain of legal oversight. It seems like the interpretation is: commercially available = publically available.

I guess what I would want to know next is: who gets access to this?