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The cops would still need a reference photo to compare to though and they aren’t getting into my house for that shit. Getting in is easier when it’s a rental property because a landlord holds the keys.
Nobody inside your home ever takes photos and posts them to social media? That's the thing: they can build databases associating people with places they have been seen, people they have been seen with.
You could visit a friend, get snapped and posted, then your friend could have somebody you don't know over another time, and now you're linked to that person and may come up in fishing expeditions around a crime they may be accused of...
Nevermind the faults in the system that place you inside wretched hives of scum and villiany you have never even had the pleasure of visiting yourself, but still you get to defend yourself against accusations stemming from the faulty placement.
https://moneywise.com/news/top-stories/flock-ai-cameras-denver-woman-false-accusation-package-theft
Neither my wife nor I post photos to social media, and we almost never have people over. If we do, it’s usually folks that are equally disconnected from social media as much as we are (we have a tiny friend circle). But I’m also aware that we’re among the minority here. I deleted all of my social accounts years ago, so the tracking network for me has reduced quite a bit, but it will never be 0 in this day and age.
That's not what it's for.
The purpose of this is to take your social media post of you standing with a gun and a sign that says 'all cops must die', and then using the background of that photo to identify and locate your house.
That’s a pretty dumb thing to post. The people I usually see posting pics of themselves with guns are righties.