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Well, you could try mentioning that Turkey managed to leak the personal data of more or less its entire adult population (50M people or so; https://www.theguard
by patrec 4y ago
Well, you could try mentioning that Turkey managed to leak the personal data of more or less its entire adult population (50M people or so; https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/04/database-allegedly-containing-id-numbers-of-50m-turks-posted-online https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/04/database-...).
Or, maybe closer to home, that several European states were complicit in helping the US to kidnap, torture and imprison their innocent citizens (the euphemism for accidentally kidnapping and torturing some completely random person is "erroneous rendition" https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10618427 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10618427).
Both the US and European allies went through great pains and costs to provide the Taliban with detail biometric data for kill lists https://theconversation.com/the-taliban-reportedly-have-control-of-us-biometric-devices-a-lesson-in-life-and-death-consequences-of-data-privacy-166465 https://theconversation.com/the-taliban-reportedly-have-cont....
For just $68 you can even get the collector's edition on ebay, which includes not just lots of biometric and personal data but also comes with the original capture device (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/technology/for-sale-on-ebay-a-military-database-of-fingerprints-and-iris-scans.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/technology/for-sale-on-eb...).