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The only way you can justify this point of view is by using the most extreme case where you have implied violence in a public medium. 99.9% of people's faceboo

• jimt1234 5y ago
  Good point (extreme case). However, the "nothing to hide" argument isn't relevant because nothing is hidden; this is all public data. The quick counter-argument seems to be, "You're not trying to hide, so you've got not claim to any sort of privacy rights." And, once again, I'm pretty much just playing the devil's advocate. My real concern isn't so much the visibility of the data, it's the analysis of the data. Any conclusion can be drawn from any data set, given sloppy enough analysis. I learned this back in the 90s, doing performance testing for a large pharma, comparing an app written in C and the same app written in something called "Java". My mentor, and old school C programmer, told me, "The data is what we say it is." Guess what? The app written in C performed better, and the young punk "Java" programmers lost the contract. The bad old days. The point is, if cops are buying this data and the analysis, the data companies know what the cops want, and they'll give it to them. That's scary.