Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you

• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  indeed, you said this:

  The fact that it was legally mandated is good evidence that it is.

  but their point was laws are not always made with good intentions and safety in mind. that’s not to say TPMS is required for secret surveillance, but that there being a law for it does not immediately mean there’s good purpose for that law.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    indeed, you said this

    Indeed, that had nothing to do with ethics.

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      yes it has, when a law not only just does not have good purpose, but even malicious, but even when the added safety is not outweighed by the bad things it does

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    • __hetz@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Do you believe law and ethics are separable? Does your “these systems save lives” not speak to the very reasoning employed to codify an ethical position into the law of the land?

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Why are we still talking about ethics? I’m not going to entertain this strawman any further.

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