It took me a long time to realize that Bell Labs was cool. You see, my dad worked at Bell Labs, and he has not done a single cool thing in his life except create me and bring a telescope to my thir…
  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    3·
    30 days ago

    This company preemptively spied on US citizens, without a warrant, under war criminal George W. Bush during the second Iraq invasion. Bell anything is not cool.

    • MwaEnglish
      2·
      30 days ago

      Bell labs is now owned by Nokia btw. (IIRC)

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
        1·
        30 days ago

        Oh? I definitely missed that news. What’s Nokia’s record for user privacy? Do they still have the spy room?

        • MwaEnglish
          2·
          30 days ago

          idk about their privacy

          • Maeve@kbin.earth
            1·
            29 days ago

            So, on the very briefest of searches before falling asleep, as a subsidiary of AT&T, the spying continues, and it’s hard to shake out who does what (but no pre-emptive, warrantless spying is great).