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The problem is that advertisers are ultimately vulnerable to governments, not to mention not really incentivised to resist them. In the end, governments just o
by Nextgrid 4y ago
The 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.