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The Stasi would be the obvious cultural context. In the US of course the government buys this sort of information legally from corporations.
by theptip 6mo ago
The Stasi would be the obvious cultural context.
In the US of course the government buys this sort of information legally from corporations.
- Swizec 6mo ago> The Stasi would be the obvious cultural context. There is also the rather famous example of how earlier census data was used in the 40’s. Once the government has your data, they have it. The next generation of representatives may not follow all the same rules and norms
- RobotToaster 6mo agoThe stasi could only dream of the kind of surveillance the NSA et al has today.
- throwaway173738 6mo agoOr Facebook or Equifax.
- tgv 6mo agoThe West-German debate in the 70s came from the realization that the sheer size of the Holocaust/Shoah was in no small degree due to bureaucratic record keeping. Storing someone's ethnicity is potentially dangerous for that person.