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Yes, I actually do expect them not to be the kind of morons who could decide it's smart to hoover, aggregate, and store a toxic mountain of data which massively
by dreamfactory2 11y ago
Yes, I actually do expect them not to be the kind of morons who could decide it's smart to hoover, aggregate, and store a toxic mountain of data which massively undermines personal and state security.
There's a reason for external oversight and governance - you don't need malice in a large organisation to get a really shitty outcome, just a bunch of cogs in the machine each chasing local optima.
- Silhouette 11y agoIt does seem rather unwise to collect data if they can't protect it. Didn't the US government organisation responsible for security checking millions of employees and presumably storing all kinds of sensitive information about them in the process just have a huge leak? I have a sense of Schadenfreude about that particular incident from the point of view of a government collecting too much data and itself becoming the victim, but when you look at it on the level of the individuals involved and presumably also their family and friends in some cases, it's pretty hard to see any real upside to that kind of result.