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
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
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.