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The CIA can and will monitor your offline and online behavior if your profile is interesting to them. No amount of "muh privacy" appeals will stop them. Privac
by pphysch 5y ago
The CIA can and will monitor your offline and online behavior if your profile is interesting to them. No amount of "muh privacy" appeals will stop them.
Privacy and anonymity are absolutely not orthogonal. How do you KYC? By "violating" their privacy (storing and querying personal records) to identify (deanonymize) someone.
- mulmen 5y ago> The CIA can and will monitor your offline and online behavior if your profile is interesting to them. That’s because we don’t have adequate privacy safeguards in modern western society. > Privacy and anonymity are absolutely not orthogonal. Privacy and anonymity are not synonymous. I can have a private conversation with a friend. That does not require anonymity. In fact it precludes anonymity because my friend and I know who each other are. Privacy says nobody else knows what we discussed or even that we had a conversation. > KYC? Know Your Client? This is a new term to me but sounds like an authentication concept. Which is compatible with privacy but precludes anonymity, by definition.
- sdenton4 5y agoKnow Your Customer, a vital concept in financial services, which basically makes it much easier to track down and prevent money laundering and fraud.
- mulmen 5y agoI can privately communicate with my bank. But I cannot do so anonymously. LEO can’t see what I am doing on the wire. But with due process they can compel my bank to reveal what I have been doing with my money.