The ad: "Vigilant Mobile Companion transfers your mobile device into a powerful, secure license plate recognition and facial recognition data collection, analysys and alerting tool -- increasing productivity and insight, anywhere you go."
extropic-engine•1h ago
Dead the instant it hit the new page. dang, why do you let the bots bury certain news sources such as this one?
Bender•1h ago
Best to email dang. Unless this thread gets popular he won't see it. 404media is auto-dead in most cases and requires a vouche. [1]
that doesn’t make any sense. NYT is paywalled and their links don’t get autokilled. (not your fault obviously, but whoever is calling the shots on this)
duxup•1h ago
Plenty of sites with signup walls get posted to HN and do just fine.
naIak•1h ago
Because you can bypass the wall with archive.is or other tools. This website is closed tight.
bryanrasmussen•1h ago
huh, wow if only someone made an app to track ICE! /s
michelb•1h ago
“On its website, Thomson Reuters markets CLEAR as a tool that has saved an abducted baby, identified a wanted man, and caught a sexual predator. “
Ah yes, think of the children! I wonder whose cronies will be whitelisted from this app.
add-sub-mul-div•22m ago
I was so used to fear of immigrants being used to simply win votes that I overlooked how effective it would be at justifying surveillance that would otherwise be unpopular with the constituents of both parties.
aworks•1h ago