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If the question was: give up your privacy to help stop covid killing people, it would be more accepted on Hacker News. I'm half surprised that our governments
by thinkingemote 6y ago
If the question was: give up your privacy to help stop covid killing people, it would be more accepted on Hacker News.
I'm half surprised that our governments have not pulled this trick and half relieved that the world isn't going down the toilet as much as others would like to tell us it is!
- Nasrudith 6y agoThat bluff was already long called with the phone contact tracing protocols specifically designed to get privacy. They gave it a cold shoulder and attempted to roll their own slowly and terribly until it was far too late which should tell us everything about their concern for our lives and overall trustworthiness with data. That their response was to start railing on "Big Tech" as the well of all sorrows and responsible for kidnapping the Lindenburg Baby tells us that not only are they not trustworthy but we shouldn't even piss on them if they were on fire.
- thinkingemote 6y agoAgreed. It's a testament that the big tech cos have some interest in privacy and also that what some call The Big State is actually very horribly inefficient and disfunctional. Hence the relief; the dysfunction of these govts is a guard against dystopia!