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Privacy is the least current concern for A people?

• H8crilA 4y ago
  Sadly, but remember that privacy there is often the difference between making it past the next regime change, or not making it.
• arianvanp 4y ago
  It's not. These lists could be used to track down people who worked with the US government. They will be executed for this. These lists were a scandal a few months ago in Netherlands already as people who worked for the Dutch army in Afghanistan were scared for their lives when the government in A fell and NL was not able to get them out quickly enough and NL didn't destroy the records in the Ambasassy
  • nyolfen 4y ago
    despite accusatory inferences, nothing in this suggests the data says whether someone worked with the US govt. the entire point of the project was to catalog the entire country, everyone got scanned at some point or another
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• usrusr 4y ago
  You're certainly on to something in so far as this is why it happened: in an environment where it's a regular occurrence that bystanders die in violent clashes between one side that exposes itself in uniform and another that disguises themselves as (and/or considers themselves) regular people, "some PII" seems to be a very low price to pay for untangling the bloody mess a little. But as evidenced here, that PII won't go away and the consequences can be just as bloody as what it helped preventing, or worse. This is not about brandishing haughty principles, this is about difficult decisions and learning in a maze of known und unknown unknowns. Expect mistakes to be made and try to find the right balance between fostering a blame culture where too much is swept under the rug to learn and a careless culture where too much is blanketly forgiven.