:ancap-good:

https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2023/02/25/volkswagen-says-company-requiring-payment-for-location-of-abducted-child-near-libertyville-was-serious-breach-of-policy/

The employee looked up the VIN and confirmed the vehicle could be tracked but declined to do it because the trial period for the software in the car had ended.

Can’t make this shit up

  • M68040 [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    On one hand I wouldn't want the cops officially being able to force corps to hand over that information, but on the other hand using GPS data to track the kid seems like a decently logical solution to the situation given what's on-hand. Could certainly do worse

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      I'm split on this story.

      It could be a couple of ham fisted porkers screaming "Tell us where the child is!" at a starvation wages Philippines call center guy who has no idea what the call is about.

      Or it could be VW has some automated process where you literally can't pull the data until you've entered a credit card number first, warrants be damned.

      Either way, normal country being normal.