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Even if you're certain America today and into the indeterminate future has no leverage over your country, can't subvert your elections, bribe or blackmail your
by LarryMullins 4y ago
Even if you're certain America today and into the indeterminate future has no leverage over your country, can't subvert your elections, bribe or blackmail your politicians, threaten sanctions or worse, then you still have to worry about American spies simply stealing that data.
Such private data should never be collected in the first place. You may as well stack up gold bars in your home, in plain view of street-level windows. Such concentrations of data/wealth are asking for trouble. Get rid of it now and you won't have to worry about keeping it secure in the future, no matter what world events may unfold.
- __MatrixMan__ 4y agoI live in America and I'm not convinced that America has leverage over my country. The steering wheel on this thing appears to be broken..
- __MatrixMan__ 4y agoI live in America and I'm not convinced that America has leverage over my country. The steering wheel on this thing appears to be broken.
- LarryMullins 4y agoUnderstandable position, but I think you should be aware that the US Government is capable of moving fast and decisively in rare but unpredictable circumstances. Only 44 days elapsed between 2001/9/11 and the passage of the Patriot Act on 2001/10/25. Things usually don't change that fast, but nobody can truly predict the geopolitical landscape even half a year into the future.
- Aeolun 4y agoI’m fairly certain nobody will be passing a patriot act over something this banal though.