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There's still a world of difference between the government actively maintaining a database of Enemies of the State, and the government having to extract that in
by scarmig 10y ago
There's still a world of difference between the government actively maintaining a database of Enemies of the State, and the government having to extract that information from at best neutral, and often hostile third parties.
That said, it certainly behooves Facebook and Google to be thoughtful about what data they keep in a form easily accessible to the government.
- brighteyes 10y agoI don't see a world of difference. The government gets that information either way. Once Google and Facebook has it, it can be retrieved by the government through both legal and non-legal mechanisms. Again, we know this happens, Snowden showed us. The only option is for Google and Facebook to not have that information in the first place. That's just not going to happen - there is tons of financial value in knowing people's religion, ethnicity, etc. etc.