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True. I think a big danger underlying people's general reservations about this stuff is government abuse of all this newly available data.
by karzeem 17y ago
True. I think a big danger underlying people's general reservations about this stuff is government abuse of all this newly available data.
- pyre 17y agoCorporate abuse too. If someone is out-spoken against Google, what's to stop Google from silencing them by threatening to reveal secret information about them (or to plant information about them, like child porn searches in their search history). Not only that, but it makes it easier for 3rd party groups to try and gain information to silence opponents, Scientology being the first to come to mind. In general, all of this information will benefit people, but possibly only people that 'keep their head down' and don't 'go against the flow.' For people that have strongly held beliefs that are against the 'norm,' it will make it easier for them to be attacked and (eventually) silenced. It will be the tool used to bludgeon people into becoming a homogenized society.