Comment by JumpCrisscross

11 days ago

> People thought we were nuts for using historical examples about the Nazis abusing all kinds of records to hunt down Jews

What data-retention issues do you have with HHS having patients’ home addresses?

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sbarre  11 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

  • JumpCrisscross  11 days ago

    Sure. I’m calling out data-retention discussions as entirely orthogonal to HHS data being used for immigration enforcement.

    There isn’t a data-retention issue with HHS having home records, there is an abuse issue with DHS giving it to Palantir to VLOOKUP addresses out of.

  • elric  10 days ago

    It certainly wasn't intended as a straw man argument. I was speaking to the broader issue that any data that's gathered anywhere can be used against people. Even if it seems like there are good reasons to store it.

    I think you may have missed that I was replying specifically to this part of a parent comment and agreeting with it:

    > We are really seeing the fears of data collection from the 2000s and 2010s come to fruition