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>Spain is not Somalia, why not let Indra do it? The data may be safer with the CCP, at least they won't lose it.
by josu 4mo ago
>Spain is not Somalia, why not let Indra do it?
The data may be safer with the CCP, at least they won't lose it.
- broken-kebab 4mo agoDunno, losing it maybe safer from a citizen's POV.
- markdown 4mo agoOdd take. 99.99999% of citizens will never travel to China, so it matters not that the Chinese govt holds their data. A local company losing the data screws everyone. Palantir getting the data screws everyone, because while foreign, that data will eventually be fed into global systems like VISA, Mastercard, etc, and affect your travel in numerous countries that will be outsourcing their systems to Palantir.
- fluoridation 4mo agoYou can't predict the future. By your own reasoning, you can't say with any degree of certainty that it will never matter if China has a citizen's data just because that person will never travel there.
- broken-kebab 4mo agoI'm not sure what "travel" even does here. Possessing citizen's info opens possibilities for influence ops, blackmailing, unfair advantage in business and much more. And non-democratic countries are always better at these games, cause they need not be afraid of the next government leaking, investigating, selling whatever they did. Meanwhile gov't losing info on one citizen screws said citizen, but losing all of it screws the gov't itself, and generally rebalances power in favor of citizens. Which one may say isn't bad.
- Dibby053 4mo agoOne in a million?
- Dibby053 4mo agoRight up until some kid named "Bobby Tiananmen" makes the whole database delete itself ;)