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Your Car Is Tracking You. Abusive Partners May Be, Too. (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 10 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world

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She stopped responding to him, she said, even though he texted and called her hundreds of times.

Ms. Dowdall, 59, started occasionally seeing a strange new message on the display in her Mercedes, about a location-based service called “mbrace.” The second time it happened, she took a photograph and searched for the name online.

“I realized, oh my God, that’s him tracking me,” Ms. Dowdall said.

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[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This happens again and again and again. At every level, public and private.

The answer is not "filter these people out of these jobs" because very often they have no prior records. Or sometimes someone gets phished. The answer is to stop enabling this in the first place.

[–] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can you speak more to what you mean by enabling? And who’s enabling who?

[–] asbestos@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can you read the article first?

[–] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

I was asking the commenter to clarify their statement/opinion, not the fucking article but thanks for the rude ass comment dude: