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1. Three years ago, you liked some tweets of someone who you didn't know was a political seperatist. Now, his group had been classified a terror organisation.
by gillesjacobs 2y ago
1. Three years ago, you liked some tweets of someone who you didn't know was a political seperatist. Now, his group had been classified a terror organisation.
2. You went to buy some acetone as a solvent for a project.
There is now material evidence and intent for a terrorist attack using TATP bombs.
You and your family are on a no-fly list and are being watched.
All digital platforms have to automatically turn over all your personal data to intelligence services. They will share it with every other intelligence service in the union.
During automated analysis, a CASM detector finds bath-time pictures of your child. A criminal trial for the production of child pornography is initiated.
- exe34 2y agoYour bank accounts are frozen and credit cards blocked. Your amazon video library is also gone, as is your gmail account.
- tomrod 2y agoThe law is malleable. All laws will be abused, and by corollary, all laws are societal negotiations, one court room at a time. Those in the legal field grok this. Those with less experience in the legal field typically fear the law for its seeming black-and-white attribute when it's really a lot of grey.
- throwaway48476 2y agoPeople take the worst case because statistically it will happen to someone. You can't average risk in your life like you can with insurance.
- gillesjacobs 2y agoAdditionally, for laws like this that specifically take away democratic control this argument is entirely moot. Any claimed benefit or justification is entirely nullified for regular people if their oversight and transparency processes are being negated.
- tomrod 2y agoKnightian uncertainty I certainly can. True uncertainty, you typically do assume worst case but that's a risk posture choice.