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radarthekat said:

larrya said:

mlafferty said:

There is less than no basis to his complaint: he will likely get nothing, including no settlement. His complaint should not be directed at Apple or the security firm, as they did nothing directly to facilitate his arrest. The arrest was the result of a presumably lawfully issued warrant, so his whining about the conduct of the police and courts will do no good. Hint: this is not a matter of false arrest. He should take responsibility for his loss of his temporary identification and find another way to snatch his "15 minutes of fame!"

Let’s drag you out of bed at 5AM for a crime you didn’t commit, using an arrest warrant based on a picture that doesn’t look like you, and see if you don’t do a little “whining”.  

Question remains... whom do you have the basis to whine about?  

It’s the police who collect evidence and present to a judge.  Apple would have handed over to the police what they asked for; the in-store surveillance video and any other records of the public’s attendance at their store.  It’s then on the police to utilize that video and other records as evidence in an investigation.  So it’s a failed police investigation that led the police, not Apple, to seek a warrant and then go exercise that warrant.  But of course, it’s not so easy to sue the police or a judge, plus there’s deeper pockets to go after.

This lawsuit is likely predicated on the calculation that embarrassment to Apple is worth more than an attempt to fight city hall.  As such, it’s baseless, but the best shot the kid and his lawyer has. 

It's suggested that a thief may have obtained Bah's lost learner's permit -- one without a photo -- and used that as a form of ID at Apple stores. In a bid to track down the suspect, Apple may have mistakenly connected the permit with another person's face.

The security firm named in the case is Security Industry Specialists. Both it and Apple have declined comment.

Based on its track record, Apple will most likely try to settle out of court unless it can clearly demonstrate it wasn't at fault and/or that the accusation is frivolous.

EdmontonGuy said:

... also Apples latest boxes always came on no matter when we did not even want to use them. It became unbearable - so they are all in a box waiting for the next garage sale. We are new to the Roku box but like these very much. 

mylovino said:

I can only repeat what I posted in a reply to another article: besides the well known issues with Siri and in my test with 2 HomePods desastrous stereo mode (one of them when switching during a test between B&W Zeppelin, Sonos Play:5, and HomePods constantly losing connection), it would take me a lot of convincing to test the HomePod again. Apple has just lost its edge in some areas, quality is just not as it is supposed to be. And I am saying this as one who uses Apple a LOT both professionally and privately. It seems that the engineers for both hard- and software are just not testing in real life scenarios and in competative situations. E.g. run a test yourself and compare the B&W Zeppelin (less than 2 HomePods pricewise) with a 2 HomePod setup. I listen to music carefully, but am not one of these high end gurus. But it is obvious, at least in my view, that the HonePod seems to try to compensate mid-range frequency issues with a strong bass. But though the B&W Zeppelin is also very strong in the bass range, which is naturally a personal preference if you like it or not, it is overall more homogeneous across all frequencies.

I probably would have considered to keep the HomePods given its integration with the Apple ecosystem, but all the other quality issues have made the choice easy for me. But test yourself, I just might have had bad luck...

Soli said:

sflocal said:

50 million is what to FB's 2 billion users?  It's more a sensationalized piece than anything else.  Yeah, FB's going to get hammered for it because will have a hissy-fit that hackers know they like cute kitten videos.

My real concern is why there was barely a whimper when Equifax got breached, stealing financially-sensitive information including everything that can be used to open up financial accounts and loans in my name?  Where's the uproar there?

1) It doesn't matter if it was 1 million or 1 billion if you're one of the people whose data was stolen, and to claim that FB users only post about kitten videos in their feeds and their private messages is fucking stupid.

2) Equifax has a huge deal. It was a major story for a long time which resulted in their CEO stepping down, Equifax building a system to see if you were one of the hacked—which itself became a story—and which caused countless comments on how to lock down all 4 major credit bureaus, as well as locking down IRS and SSA. If you didn't think the Equifax hack was a big deal than that's on you.

In fact, here's what I compiled nearly a year and a half ago for people that asked me how to protect themselves so some of the data will have (hopefully) changed.

Major Credit Bureaus:

1. Equifax — https://www.freeze.equifax.com/Freeze/jsp/SFF_PersonalIDInfo.jsp
2. Experian — https://www.experian.com/ncaconline/freeze
3. TransUnion — https://freeze.transunion.com/sf/securityFreeze/landingPage.jsp
4. Innovis — https://www.innovis.com/personal/securityFreeze

Notes of internet from the experience:

• It took me a total of 35 minutes to complete all of them.

• Only Equifax and Innovis are free.

• Three of the four have really poor website designs. [For example, Equifax wants a 4-digit year but only made the text window long enough to show 2 characters.]

• Innovis has a solid design.

• TransUnion and Experian charge $10. [Some states don’t let them charge anything.]

• Experian gives you a 10-digit PIN.

• Experian gives you an option to let them make a 10-digit PIN or you can create your own 10-digit PIN. 

• TransUnion has you create your own 6-digit PIN.

• TransUnion and Experian make you add an email address.

• Experian allows you to use an email alias (e.g.: sfocal+hgjkecjd@me.com) while TransUnion comes back saying that it’s not a valid email addy. [I used about 8 random characters for the alias to make it harder to obtain my email address through social hacking.]

• TransUnion is the only one that requires you to also create an username, password, and security question (e.g: What is your first grade teacher’s name?). [I made all these random using 1Password’s password generator.]

• Experian results in a page you can save as a PDF which contains your 10-digit PIN, the date you applied the Freeze.

• Experian gives you an option to print the page that I saved as a PDF, which contains all the Equifax data, plus their phone number, two URLs, and a physical mailing address to assist in unfreezing your account in the future.

• Innovis is the easiest to do and it's free. Literally under 60 seconds to fill out. Well, that’s because of 1Password auto-filling for me, but it’s just the one page.

You may also want to create accounts at the SSA and IRS:

1. https://www.ssa.gov/myaccount/
2. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript

Note: If you wish to have your credit run you will need to find out what bureau(s) they''ll be using so you can have them temporarily unlocked.

Pro Tip: You're not not locked out from looking at your own credit and you're allowed by law (in the US) to get a free, annual credit report. Instead of getting them all at once to make sure there's nothing hinky going on you can set up a calendar entry for each one every three months, which each entry repeating every year for each bureau.