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Sounds like you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the goals of advertisers versus the goals of state governments.
by jamiequint 4y ago
Sounds like you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the goals of advertisers versus the goals of state governments.
- wongarsu 4y agoThe Snowden leaks were nearly a decade ago, but I have serious doubts that it has gotten any better since then. The data hoarding for advertisements is just the cherry on top that makes this data more widely available.
- soheil 4y agoAdditionally that was what we did to our citizens imagine what we do to others.
- Nextgrid 4y agoThe problem is that advertisers are ultimately vulnerable to governments, not to mention not really incentivised to resist them. In the end, governments just outsource their spying to advertisers (without even having to pay for the service) and can “ask nicely” for any data they need.
- jamiequint 4y agoThat's an absurdly stupid claim, which you have no evidence to support.
- Nextgrid 4y agoWouldn't the evidence be US law? As far as I know nobody can lawfully resist (nor even disclose) a national security letter. The only workaround is to not hold any data of interest to the government so they would have no reason to send one in the first place. However, besides national security letters, I'm not even sure one would be needed when there's a healthy industry of data brokers happy to sell the data.
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