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1. nemomarx · 1789674084 · focus · HN ↗

   This all seems like good and sensible restrictions. Cutting down on how long data can be stored helps with privacy in an cases, and making sure the data isn't being sold or shared with anyone but the state should at least cut off some misuse from private orgs.

   1. jfengel · 1789674452 · focus · HN ↗

      The fact that it came down to a governor to set these standards means it's going to be subject to even more abuse.

      It was up to Flock to figure these things out before they deployed it. Instead we've got fifty separate states coming up with guesses as to the needed level of control, and each of them surely forgetting something. That's what happens when you roll your own security.

      We now will have 50 separate state police forces looking for ways around the restrictions. And they will find them, because they are far more flexible in finding holes than governments are at patching them.

      1. s1artibartfast · 1789703694 · focus · HN ↗

         How was it to flock to create the laws? They looked at them and figured out it was legal.

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