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Your Garbage Truck Is About to Start Spying on You. Your Car Already Did, and Got Fined for It. (www.yahoo.com)
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[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 14 points 22 hours ago

the selective enforcement is, by design, a way to manufacture an excuse to harass and persecute minorities/undesirables.

Absolutely, and this is another thing that's going to prevent "fair" algorithmic enforcement from happening.

The correct solution is to relax or abolish the laws themselves until they diminish to the point that fully enforcing them is reasonable.

I have always thought this, but I don't get my jollies out of selectively "sticking it to" people different than me for the same things I get away with all the time. Apparently, a lot of our government, police, and voters do...