Trying to stop kids from using drugs on school property is “stupid shit”?

It’s not surveilling children, it’s surveilling the byproducts of vaping.

…so kids can freely vape in school buildings during school hours?

That’s probably more commonly accepted. I defer to whatever my team is doing, but for my own files, I wouldn’t want things like UsStudentList or USStudentList which both look wrong to me.

USstudentList looks right to me, and if that’s wrong, I’m okay with being wrong! Haha

Camel case, but with a twist – if the next word is about to start after a capital letter, I’ll have it lower case.

topSecretFBIfile.txt for example

people share phone numbers to people they personally know.

This is about Signal having the phone numbers. I don’t think anybody “personally knows” Signal…

Yup. My bank was even “translating” passwords to PINs behind the scene specifically so your password for the website would be the same as your password on the telephone.

I was wondering why 1 year was in the red category, but then I realized that that time could decrease quite a bit over time with technological advances

EDIT: typo

Figured as much. I thought that was just “standard”, but even “standard” can be a lot to expect lol

Passwords can be leaked, mostly by bad security on server side.

Wouldn’t this be solved by storing only hashed passwords?

That sounds legit. If your GPS location is on at all times (assuming this is on your cellphone), then they’ve got enough geolocation data to associate you to your partner.

And if it’s off? Your SIM card is acting like a GPS (though a less-accurate one than your phone). Do you trust your mobile service provider to not be selling this data? (And this would be even more of a factor if they’re also your partner’s service provider, and/or your ISP)

Exactly. They definitely could, but there’d also be potential legal issues, and it’d just be much more expensive to analyze sound data.

If it’s done on each device, then their battery power would suck, and performance would decline. Sure, they could do that, but I imagine most phone manufacturers would rather sell more phones and make money from app companies (Meta, Google) who pay to have their apps pre-installed on the phone. Or Samsung and Apple, who have their own ecosystems for mining data like Google does.

If they were instead just uploading audio to central servers (which could mitigate legal issues due to “anonymizing” the data), then they’d be paying for the computational power to analyze all that data.

Again, completely possible, and likely in use with things like Alexa and Google Home. But on our phones (and laptops for that matter), they have so many other cheaper ways to get probably the same quality of information.

I think “the microphones are listening when they’re off” is still a conspiracy theory at this point. It’s not really needed to get enough information.

Are there any ways that Google could find out that you’re interacting together?

• Do you share an IP address/router?
• Do you watch YouTube videos in that language?
• Do you use any messaging apps where you speak that language with other people, but also speak with your partner?
• Do you access any Google services (with a Keyboard for that language installed) that your partner also accesses?
• Do you use location services that could pinpoint both of your locations to the same street address?
• Does your partner interact with any of the people you’re learning that language with? (E.g., Social media friends, "Contact"s, live in the same geographic region)
• Is your device on the same network as your partner’s*? (Wi-Fi or Bluetooth)

I’m not saying these are all ways that Google uses, but I believe that each of them are ways that Google would be able to associate that language to your partner.

Who would have thought.

It’s impossible to “of think”.

The guy who’s likely to become Canada’s next PM wants to do this too.

Someone can hate Windows for their own purposes while still acknowledging that it may be the ideal OS for the average consumer

I think the phrasing isn’t the best. I think he needs an “is what” before “hurts children” in the first paragraph.