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No, and neither did Nazi Germany. What the GP said was "Honestly, the history of the 20th century should be the closed book final assessment on why it's permane
by cfmcdonald 6y ago
No, and neither did Nazi Germany. What the GP said was "Honestly, the history of the 20th century should be the closed book final assessment on why it's permanently a bad idea for governments to collect files on people." This is a much wider claim than "Subway shouldn't collect information on its customers on behalf of the government."
BTW most people already have a centrally tracked record of every store they've been in, their credit card records, which the government can subpoena.
- viklove 6y agofuck hn
- cfmcdonald 6y agoYour response seems needlessly confrontational. I haven't even expressed a position on the original question of the Washington state policy. > There's a huge difference between a private CC# that you voluntarily use, and a government issued id# that you are required to provide on entry. No one has proposed requiring a government id to enter a store, AFAIK. The huge difference is mostly academic for most people. Very few people outside the criminal underground transact solely in cash/bitcoin so that they can't be tracked. > It's ok though, I'm of the opinion that we (as humans) do not deserve basic rights such as privacy, because we're fools who don't value them. Didn't realize HNers would help prove my point, though. "We're fools" - is this the opposite of the royal we, where we means you? > So, are you willing to provide us with a list of every store you've visited in the last month? I'll be waiting. I don't see how posting that list on HN in response to a request by someone unknown to me for no reason is analogous to providing it to my government in order to help with contact tracing. Anyway the list would be very short, since I've been avoiding public places... well, like the plague.