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		refurb on Jan 29, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ICE is about to start tracking license plates acro... Ok, maybe I'm misunderstanding. Problem: engineers working on things like license plate scanning Your solution: engineers should be ethical My comment: engineers can be ethical and still do things like license plate scanning Your comment: you agree From my vantage point it doesn't look like your recommendation changes anything.

tedunangst on Jan 29, 2018 | [–]

Problem: engineers who think license plate scanners are unethical but build them anyway because "I'm not actually the person pulling the trigger".

tptacek on Jan 29, 2018 | [–]

I think if you re-read my comments, you'll see that you've left a bit out of that summary.

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