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by gur48
873 days ago
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This is beyond paranoid. It's para-paranoid. > Your "anonymized" cell phone GPS data can be used pretty easily to determine when you're not home for purposes of burglary. Please - PLEASE - find me ONE example of a home burglary occuring under these circumstances. > Your purchasing habits could cause you to become a prime suspect for a terrorist who used those same items in your area for a recent attack, like if your wife was buying a pressure cooker while you were buying backpacks for your kids doing back to school shopping. This is just beyond nuts. Stop watching so much television, it's not good for your mental health. |
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Likely not possible. By definition, these would be successful burglaries that happened when owner was not home and perpetrator was likely never caught.
Remember, the close rate on burglaries in the US is in the low teens - 13% as of 2022[1], and by definition, these were the dumb perpetrators that got caught - the 13% least competent||lucky of all home burglars.
Buying a pressure cooker and a backpack causing you to be suspected of terrorism is nuts?
Oh, you sweet, sweet, naïve summer child. This isn't fiction, it's a story from real life that's happened many times. A cursory search engine query shows numerous examples of this, e.g. this one[2] that happened over a decade ago!
I can't force you to be rationally worried about entirely plausible risks, just keep in mind that your irrational lack of concern for such possibilities only puts yourself at risk.
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd guess you're politically likely to be progressive/left wing. Do you know that's empirically correlated[3] with having less mass in your amygdala, the part of the brain responsible for evaluating threats and risks?
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/194213/crime-clearance-r...
[2] https://www.nydailynews.com/2013/08/01/pressure-cooker-and-b...
[3] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/conservative-and-...