<story><title>AMC movie theater calls FBI to arrest a Google Glass user</title><url>http://the-gadgeteer.com/2014/01/20/amc-movie-theater-calls-fbi-to-arrest-a-google-glass-user</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zobzu</author><text>Note that the authorities did tell him they were going to cause him more problems if he didn&amp;#x27;t cooperate.&lt;p&gt;So, that makes the choice of telling them nothing pretty hard.</text></item><item><author>shittyanalogy</author><text>This isn&amp;#x27;t really a story about the woes of being a google glass user, it&amp;#x27;s a story about how people don&amp;#x27;t know their rights and how to apply them.&lt;p&gt;This man is lucky that he didn&amp;#x27;t end up accidentally giving the authorities some tiny piece of information to make his life worse. You should absolutely never talk to the authorities even if you think you have nothing to hide and especially when they&amp;#x27;re actively trying to pin something on you. It is perfectly legal for them to threaten you with harsher legal penalties, and it is perfectly legal for you to say I need to speak with a lawyer before I make any decisions or say anything. This account is a CLEAR illustration of how they ONLY want you to confess to something and once they don&amp;#x27;t think they can they no longer care about you in the tiniest bit. It&amp;#x27;s not about justice, it&amp;#x27;s about catching people.&lt;p&gt;Also, don&amp;#x27;t wear a goddamn camera on your head to the movies. The man must certainly own a pair of regular prescription glasses and was being extremely naive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>llamataboot</author><text>No, this is what they rely on. It is the basic &amp;quot;If you have nothing to hide, why are you hiding&amp;quot; line of questioning. It&amp;#x27;s especially used to search cars at traffic stops.&lt;p&gt;Correct:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Am I being detained? Am I free to go?&amp;quot; (repeat until one gets an answer)&lt;p&gt;If free to go - leave
If not free to go - don&amp;#x27;t say another word&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t consent to a search. Don&amp;#x27;t try to be nice. Don&amp;#x27;t believe any bullshit you are told:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Look, we&amp;#x27;re trying to be nice here, if you don&amp;#x27;t want to be nice, we can take you down to the station.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;You know what happens if we have to call to wake up a judge at this hour to get a search warrant?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Ok, then we&amp;#x27;ll just wait here until the dogs come&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;or the almost always used -&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Am I being arrested?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Do you want to be?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;--&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s all bullshit and used to get verbal consent to searches and verbal answers to questions. You may feel like an asshole, especially if you really do have &amp;quot;nothing to hide&amp;quot;. The cops will do their best to make you feel scared of what they will do if you don&amp;#x27;t cooperate. You may have a ton of privilege (perhaps you are a cis-gendered white man) and you feel that cashing it in and talking man-to-man in a nice way with the cops will get you on your way quicker. And it may. But one time, it may not, and you&amp;#x27;ll wish you hadn&amp;#x27;t talked. And of the larger overarching issue of living a police state with nominal checks and balances on what the cops can and can&amp;#x27;t do, it behooves us all to limit their power to their legal minimum as much as possible.</text></comment>
<story><title>AMC movie theater calls FBI to arrest a Google Glass user</title><url>http://the-gadgeteer.com/2014/01/20/amc-movie-theater-calls-fbi-to-arrest-a-google-glass-user</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zobzu</author><text>Note that the authorities did tell him they were going to cause him more problems if he didn&amp;#x27;t cooperate.&lt;p&gt;So, that makes the choice of telling them nothing pretty hard.</text></item><item><author>shittyanalogy</author><text>This isn&amp;#x27;t really a story about the woes of being a google glass user, it&amp;#x27;s a story about how people don&amp;#x27;t know their rights and how to apply them.&lt;p&gt;This man is lucky that he didn&amp;#x27;t end up accidentally giving the authorities some tiny piece of information to make his life worse. You should absolutely never talk to the authorities even if you think you have nothing to hide and especially when they&amp;#x27;re actively trying to pin something on you. It is perfectly legal for them to threaten you with harsher legal penalties, and it is perfectly legal for you to say I need to speak with a lawyer before I make any decisions or say anything. This account is a CLEAR illustration of how they ONLY want you to confess to something and once they don&amp;#x27;t think they can they no longer care about you in the tiniest bit. It&amp;#x27;s not about justice, it&amp;#x27;s about catching people.&lt;p&gt;Also, don&amp;#x27;t wear a goddamn camera on your head to the movies. The man must certainly own a pair of regular prescription glasses and was being extremely naive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonwocky</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s no choice at all. Don&amp;#x27;t talk.&lt;p&gt;Look, I understand these guys have a job to do, and they have a certain toolset they&amp;#x27;re allowed to use to do it. I don&amp;#x27;t begrudge them that. But damned if I&amp;#x27;m going to let a sense of civic duty lead to my self-incrimination.&lt;p&gt;A friend of mine spent some time at the Public Defenders office. The number of times she saw people send themselves up for long stretches in prison, under circumstances in which the authorities would &amp;#x2F;never&amp;#x2F; have gotten a conviction otherwise, led her to give me the same advice you see every single lawyer on television offer their clients: don&amp;#x27;t say anything!</text></comment>