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Exactly, this information being harvested can 100% be used against you. For example, Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, attempted to secure a list of every Te
by notaustinpowers 3y ago
Exactly, this information being harvested can 100% be used against you.
For example, Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, attempted to secure a list of every Texan who changed their gender within the past 24 months, stating they may need drivers license numbers in the future to look up their information. The only reason that didn't happen is because the Department of Public Safety said they couldn't accurately produce that information.
Just imagine a state, or a foreign government subpoenaing or hacking Nvidia to get this information they're collecting. Now that state or foreign government doesn't just have your browser history like if they subpoenaed your ISP. They have everything you did on that computer. What's on your hard drive, what games you played, what devices are connected to your computer, etc.
I try to not go down the slippery slope analogies, but a company having this treasure trove of information on 82% of desktop users is going to make it ripe for hacking and state-sanctioned spying.
- titzer 3y agoYou have to understand that national security letters (NSLs) are the tip of the spear here. If the target of surveillance is sufficiently bad or scary, the government has tools and absolutely will use them to get this information. Once that is normalized, and companies literally build platforms to service those requests, then that capability gets pushed down to federal investigators, then local law enforcement.