Now?

Another reason? This is THE reason, and always has been. If you create these massive troves of data there is no magical force denying access to malicious people. Even if security was one hundred percent there's still the possibility of the people obtaining the data legally to abuse it.

More and more people just take for granted that this is all normal, corporations and governments having detailed records of every citizen's daily life and those records being leaked.

I remember. The charges were very pointed. This last time around they were everywhere. And that completely dodges the issue of record numbers of absentee ballots with nothing to show in the way of fraud.

Personally, I advocate all people "hesitate before breeding".

This last election had the biggest focus on voter fraud in my lifetime. It also made heavy use of absentee ballots. Spotlights were on every aspect of the voting process. Voter fraud remained at a minimum. Cases were brought up and then dropped across the board. If voter fraud is such a problem that we need to be enacting stricter voting laws, I'd like to see data on that first.

Is safety on the line in any significant way? What percent of injuries in uber/lyfts are sustained from assault? What percent of those assaults will be stopped by this as opposed to background checks?

Then you take that number and hold it up to the number of people denied work regardless of judicial results.

If both sides include innocent people being caused suffering, how do you justify one over the other? How many rights lost to safety are too many?

The thing is, it cant hold the data to let you challenge it in the first place. They're using broad categories to avoid appearing to accuse people on the list of any specific incident, since they're relying on hearsay. That has the added benefit of making it impossible to challenge claims, as the details wont be in the data.

These companies were already given free passes to wreck worker's rights with the whole "contractors" thing. They'll just keep pushing until they hit a wall.

This isnt "refusing service", this is creating a database linking people to criminal behavior based purely on hearsay and sharing that data with another company that a person does not work for.

There are multiple issues with it, but the obvoius one is libel. That's why many companies use The Work Number, which wont divulge details like that.

As others have pointed out, if convicted of the crime it will already show up in a background check. This is overstepping boundaries, and hopefully will be stopped.

I live right next to CB and my games are defaulting to European settings. I have yet to experience input lag. I see video quality drop to potato for a few seconds several times a day, but it's doing better than my rig would running those games locally.

I've been using Stadia to bide time while I ride out this chip shortage. My rig is 4+ years old now but I can't get my hands on a new video card unless I want to pay newest-gen prices for a card that's already last-gen. At this point I'll probably just wait till my entertainment fund is enough to buy a prebuilt rig. I hate doing that but I can't see getting all the parts on my own right now.

Except when Google shows enough info that the person searching doesn't need to click on the link. That's what this has been about from the start.

Surely Slashdot users can understand how users might not read the article, or even the full summary at times.

Man, the 90s really are coming back around. I hadn't thought about ICQ in years

That's because it isn't tracking in the sense that people are implying here. All it's doing is using cell tower data to create a real time map of population density. Most of that 3 years was probably red tape.

Maybe that's possible, but it still hurts my phone's battery life if I leave it on. Whether that's due to the technology or the implementation is irrelevant to me as a consumer. I just disable bluetooth.

If you even use bluetooth. I turn bluetooth on maybe twice a year.

Did you even read the summary?