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'Textalyzer' Device Allows Police To Determine If Drivers Text While Driving
- Thread starter Armadilo
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Snowman Prophet of Doom
Member
Expect lawsuits.
Frozenprince
Banned
What you mean something that allows people who have an issue with authority and legality to process all the information on your phone without a warrant will be used to do bad things?
Man that'd never happen.
WaterAstro
Member
What if I pulled over, texted, started up and turn left straight into a police stop?
Escape Goat
Member
This is great. This is just fine.
Hellwarden
Member
Two minds about this, one, people who text and drive can get fucked.
That said this seems ripe for abuse.
That said this seems ripe for abuse.
Generalpsyduck
Banned
I don't trust cops enough to be able to access this information.
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
I'm all on board if they can guarantee some privacy issues that obviously are there.
Texting while driving is as bad as drunk driving. If not worse.
Texting while driving is as bad as drunk driving. If not worse.
smokeandmirrors
Banned
they can eat my entire asshole if they think they are gonna plug something into my phone without a warrant.
Escape Goat
Member
Did you just read the thread title?
From the news report I saw last night, people had their phone unlocked.
excelsiorlef
Member
That's my concern.
This is something that could be good, yet so easily to be used by just a pissed off cop.
Texting and driving should be treated on par with drunk driving. Fuck that shit. Too many people get into accidents, hit, die, because some fucking bitch had to text while driving. So I'm all for harsher laws and better ways to stop it.
But man, does this thing reek of police going to just pull people over and harass em to give em their phone so they can say you get a ticket. Not too mention, people do use their phones as GPS, Uber, etc.
Texting and driving should be treated on par with drunk driving. Fuck that shit. Too many people get into accidents, hit, die, because some fucking bitch had to text while driving. So I'm all for harsher laws and better ways to stop it.
But man, does this thing reek of police going to just pull people over and harass em to give em their phone so they can say you get a ticket. Not too mention, people do use their phones as GPS, Uber, etc.
R10Neymarfan
Member
Revolutionary until some jailbreak app denies or changes access
I think they'd be able to use this without having to see WHAT was texted, just IF something were texted, like if letter keys were pressed or swiped x amount of time before the accident would be enough, or if swiping actions happened right before a collision, or maybe even if voice commands were being given, etc. Content is not required, only the action.
With that said, it is still horribly ripe for abuse, and I don't trust law enforcement nearly as much nowadays to be on the up and up.
With that said, it is still horribly ripe for abuse, and I don't trust law enforcement nearly as much nowadays to be on the up and up.
SolarPowered
Member
This is creepy as hell holy shit.
Ninja Scooter
Member
lmao fuck this device. Love to see a cop try and force someone to turn over their phone after an accident.
Hope this kind of shit doesn't get the same kind of bullshit pass that checkpoints do.
Hope this kind of shit doesn't get the same kind of bullshit pass that checkpoints do.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Just get the phone makers to install that "I'm a passenger" prompt they put in Pokémon Go whenever a text is sent while the car is traveling quickly.
:-V
:-V
The makers of this device (and police unions) will undoubtedly lobby to change this to make it a warrantless search. I'm 100% against this bullshit but I can't help but think it's going happen.
Gentleman Jack
Member
Will be incredibly useful for forensic analysis of a crash.
I would not want this device in the hands of anything less than a detective. There is plenty of evidence available to the naked eye whether or not someone is fully engaged with the act of driving.
I would not want this device in the hands of anything less than a detective. There is plenty of evidence available to the naked eye whether or not someone is fully engaged with the act of driving.
Honestly should be. That's ridiculously dangerous for the owner and pet.
You get a ticket. Got one a couple of months back for that thing, quick use of the phone at a stoplight. They had an undercover cop on the corner calling in cars over the radio and squads were pulling people over half a block down.
$130 bucks out the window.
Psychoward
Banned
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Also doesn't really explain if people were texting while pulled over to the side or not, unless I missed that.
disappeared
Banned
"But it's for our own good!"
Cops already have the ability to dump your entire phone if they pull you over or arrest you.
Google "sting ray device" if you want some real creepy stuff cops can do with your phone.
Psychoward
Banned
I mean texting while driving is worse because you don't have your eyes on the road at all but yeah that's pretty shitty too.
From personal experience though... sometimes it can be an unintentional struggle. Both my and my girlfriend's dogs have climbed on to my lap while I was driving and I've had to shoo them away. Would suck if I got a ticket for that.
Skellig Gra
Member
This is some Obama level privacy invasion. No thanks.
Chmpocalypse
Blizzard
Um
A keylogger without a warrant?
Fuuuuuuuuuuuck that.
A keylogger without a warrant?
Fuuuuuuuuuuuck that.
Chmpocalypse
Blizzard
They can't even guarantee they won't murder you, so
cr0w
Old Member
Not a fan. Last year I had to turn my phone over to the cops to clear myself of involvement in some serious shit and I was a nervous wreck, halfway convinced they'd plant something on there. But it was either turn it over willingly or risk being implicated in a murder investigation, so...
I wouldn't want one of these devices used as casually as checking to see if someone was texting due to the potential misuse of the tech.
I wouldn't want one of these devices used as casually as checking to see if someone was texting due to the potential misuse of the tech.
Put your dog in the backseat or in a kennel then.
Prophaniti
Banned
Nope. Not having it. Good fucking luck.