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Yes Big Gov does. And all those ways are 100% legal because it can buy the data on the legal market. There's a legal market for your personal info because...fir
by chiefalchemist 3y ago
Yes Big Gov does. And all those ways are 100% legal because it can buy the data on the legal market. There's a legal market for your personal info because...first and foremost it makes Big Gov's job 1000x easier *and* 100% legal. The point is simple. Big Gov has no interest in plugging this hole (i.e., protecting your privacy and personal info) because Big Gov is the Number 1 beneficiary of that hole.
The worry of everyone else is an off-shoot of Big Gov's needs, not the other way around. We can worry about the symptoms or we can worry about the root problem. I favor the latter.
- organsnyder 3y agoWhat do you define "Big Gov" as for this discussion? Just federal, or also state, city, county...? (I'm assuming we're talking about the US, since the context of this discussion is the College Board) What activities is government monitoring using commercially-available data?
- chiefalchemist 3y agore: "What activities is government monitoring using commercially-available data? " Exactly the point. We have no idea. No fucking clue. And making that point gets down-voted? It's nice to know HN has so many Big Gov "influencers".