Comment by raw_anon_1111
1 day ago
You have way more faith in the government not using any information it has against you than I do….
You have been paying attention to what’s going on haven’t you?
1 day ago
You have way more faith in the government not using any information it has against you than I do….
You have been paying attention to what’s going on haven’t you?
A government agency, which might even have good use for the data, isn't the problem. The problem is sending your precise location to Facebook and a two dozen silly little games and a note app, which all sell this data to anyone and their brother.
By framing the problem as being with untrustworthy government agencies rather than with greedy data brokers selling data everywhere, you are part of the problem. You may distrust your government as much as you'd like, but before we solve the problems with private data brokers, we can never improve the situation.
If I were to visit or migrate to the US, I'd have to take every precaution to avoid ICE mistaking me for an illegal immigrant.
The difference is that private brokers don’t have “a monopoly on [legslized] violence”. Facebook doesn’t have an army of masked jack booted thugs with military gear.