• wheezy@lemmy.ml
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    11 hours ago

    But walking path data from millions of players for years is valuable for routing delivery paths corralling civil unrest.

    FTFY. Crowd control.

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      Eh, I think its exppress purpose is delivery bots, and authoritative control is a happy accident. I’m cynical enough to see it foremost as corporate greed.

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        4 hours ago

        We live in a country that Ring advertised mass surveillance systems as a Superbowl ad for finding lost dogs.

        Delivering food has never been about food. It’s extremely unprofitable. It’s always been about normalizing and optimizing oppressive systems of gig work; and destroying the ability of the working class to face their bosses or even their coworkers.