Some of the LinkedIn Responses are direct and on-point, and also hilariously/depressingly based depending on how you look at it:

EDIT: In hindsight, I think I should’ve looked into posting this in a different community… It’s closer to a silly “innovation”… soo… is this considered FUD? I also don’t support smoking or vaping, especially among kids. Original title had “privacy-violating” before the “solution”.

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    3 months ago

    How is this invading someone’s privacy? All it’s doing is detecting if children are smoking in a room or space at school and then putting an alert up about the detection on a screen.

    They have zero right to privately smoke at school, or anywhere for that matter, smoking is illegal for children and not something to be taken lightly.

    Similarly, adults have no right to privately smoke whilst in the workplace in the bathroom or other non-smoking designated areas. This is also illegal and not to be taken lightly.

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      I agree. These are anonymous messages. I don’t see any privacy violations.

      They could set up camera’s that record who’s entering and leaving the restroom and thus violate privacy but this seems fair play to me. They’ll just vape somewhere else.

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      How is this invading someone’s privacy?

      So you think they will not use this to try to identify the vaping student?

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        They ought to use it that way if they aren’t. Privacy does not mean “flagrant ability to flout rules or laws”

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      Those things are generally not illegal.

      It’s illegal to buy/sell tobacco as/to a minor. It’s not illegal to use tobacco.

      Most of the restrictions on smoking are not by law, but policy. 12 states don’t have any sort of ban on tobacco use.

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      3 months ago

      pretty wild you can still type with that boot in your mouth. how do you see around it? do you just touch type?

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        I see critical thinking is not your cup of tea. Might want to take that boot out of your ass.