2 million is a very small contract in this context. More than likely this is for a targeted operation, like accessing the phones of known drug or human traffickers. They should absolutely disclose the nature of the contract to the public, but I have a hard time believing this is for some sort of mass surveillance or violation of privacy. The cost for that would be significantly higher from what I know.
I, for one, welcome our new robotic fungal overlords!
They lost any trust when we learned they are a bunch of bat-shit scientologists.
One side of their business. The other side will continue in the shadows.
They have become the evil they once sought to combat.
ExpanDrive is not free (as in libre or beer), but it's great for OneDrive integration with the filesystem. Been using it for this for a few months now with no issues. Just my two cents.
Yeah, I'd love to know what airline that was so I can make sure I never give them my business.
"Triple-headed remote-controlled vibrating crack scratcher"
Oddly specific. Donnie, is that you, trying to get ahead of a video that's about to leak?
It's okay, this happened outside the environment.
Historically, that is correct. However, the technology to automate this is extremely accessible now and low/no cost. Also, there was no widespread threat of misuse via AI in the past, so I get that there was no need in the past. Going forward, I think it's something we need to think about.
Today, the same photo you presented could be misused with AI to meaningfully obscure what is going on and confuse people about who held what kind of views. So there's a double-edged sword here.
Just to be clear, I do believe in the right to photograph anyone and anything in public, at least in the United States and any other countries that respect that freedom. I'm just trying to point out that the issue is complicated.
In your example at the end, why can't the other people's faces be blurred out before releasing the photo? Just playing devil's advocate on that point.
I disagree. You have the built in Samsung cloud backup (search for "backup" in settings). You can temporarily backup your entire phone and the data is available to you for 30 days for free. Have you tried this yet. It does a phenomenal job restoring when things go horribly wrong with an update.
I find it interesting how all but a few are two syllables. I don't think that's a coincidence.