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Why do we even need the U.S. Government to track people, when Apple, Google and Facebook are falling all over themselves to do it for free?
by ggalaxximm 5y ago
Why do we even need the U.S. Government to track people, when Apple, Google and Facebook are falling all over themselves to do it for free?
- throwawaysea 5y agoThere is an interesting phenomenon of the US government starting to outsource what it would like to do over to willing big tech conglomerates and their captive audiences. Glenn Greenwald wrote an article about the same (https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-in-a-five-hour-hearing-demands https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-in-a-five-hour-hea...), showing how legislators are outsourcing government driven censorship to private companies in what seems like a loophole in how free speech is protected in US law. I worry that the coming normalization of IDs in the hands of big tech will come with similar breaches of trust.