A Spanish activist found a tracking device on her car after a police check

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ca&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fdirecta.cat%2Funa-activista-de-barcelona-localitza-un-dispositiu-de-rastreig-gps-amagat-al-parafang-del-seu-cotxe

by bpierre • 11 years ago

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boklm2• 11 years ago

Correction on the title: this activist is a girl, so it should say "on on her car", not his.

solve3• 11 years ago

Do so many languages really not use gendered pronouns? Seems I'm seeing this happen all the time. Doesn't it cause extra confusion in the native languages?

pxndx• 11 years ago

No, it doesn't. If the activist were male, it would say "Un activista" vs "Una activista", so the gender of the person is also explicit.

bildung• 11 years ago

Its not that seldom that subject or object of the sentence are gendered, but the pronouns are gender-neutral. As the english translation of "activist" is gender-neutral you would need quite sophisticated software to not lose that information in the translation process.

kiiski2• 11 years ago

I can't speak for Spanish, but in at least in Finnish there wont be confusion, because pronouns are used to refer to the previously named/described person:

"A man went missing last night. He was wearing a red shirt." "Mary had a vacation last month. She travelled to Spain."

Of course there could be situations where the description doesn't tell you the persons gender, but those are rare and the gender likely didn't matter anyway (as otherwise it would have been stated). Plus since you don't need to use gendered words, no one will know even if you mistake a woman for a man or vice versa.

boklm2• 11 years ago

An other article, this one in spanish: http://www.eldiario.es/turing/vigilancia_y_privacidad/dispos...

spiritplumber• 11 years ago

I wonder how hard it is to figure out where the device is phoning home to. It may be a matter of getting a URL from the eeprom.

leppr• 11 years ago

First comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9160052

antr• 11 years ago

Very weird reporting, if you can even call it that. The extrapolation of the car being stopped by police linked with the tracking device is, by definition, speculation. There is no information on who the "activist" is, etc. A bit more colour on who is being tracked would provide more legitimacy to the post. It seems there is an agenda somewhere here.

dang• 11 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9160052

A Spanish activist found a tracking device on her car after a police check

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