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Post by AnAfrican » Sat, May 07, 2022, 5:16 PM UTC

dontreact wrote: post #15

decafninja wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel dictators/autocrats come in two flavors. The first genuinely feel they know what is best for the country and how to best govern it. They might still enrich themselves and their cronies in the process of course. The second are primarily out to enrich themselves and their cronies. The country exists to support this selfish goal. Of course this is not black and white, but rather a spectrum but various historical…

And history repeatedly shows that even if you get a dictator of the first kind, it’s an unstable equilibrium of a system that eventually leads to a dictator of the second kind.

Post by [deleted] » Sat, May 07, 2022, 5:24 PM UTC

tdhz77 wrote: post #22

quinnjh wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good thing the United States has a constitutional amendment that totally protects us from having our location data harvested sold and deanonymized by thousands of data brokers!

This practice should extend to the private sector in my opinion. Protection of location data should fall under the 14th amendment.

Post by legalcorrection » Sat, May 07, 2022, 5:26 PM UTC

truthwhisperer wrote: post #20

lgvln wrote: post #17

Let’s not forget the whole fiasco with Singapore’s TraceTogether app for contact tracing during the pandemic. The actual implementation of it differs significantly from the white paper they open-sourced. The actual app does not anonymize the data and the government has access to everyone’s location and interaction data. Initially, their privacy policy promised the data would only be used for tracking of the spread of…

the road to hell is paved with good intentions let not forget SG is a sort of single party system with no real freedom of press.

Post by xeromal » Sat, May 07, 2022, 5:57 PM UTC

quinnjh wrote: post #18

lgvln wrote: post #17

Let’s not forget the whole fiasco with Singapore’s TraceTogether app for contact tracing during the pandemic. The actual implementation of it differs significantly from the white paper they open-sourced. The actual app does not anonymize the data and the government has access to everyone’s location and interaction data. Initially, their privacy policy promised the data would only be used for tracking of the spread of…

Good thing the United States has a constitutional amendment that totally protects us from having our location data harvested sold and deanonymized by thousands of data brokers!

Post by themitigating » Sat, May 07, 2022, 6:16 PM UTC

quinnjh wrote: post #18

lgvln wrote: post #17

Let’s not forget the whole fiasco with Singapore’s TraceTogether app for contact tracing during the pandemic. The actual implementation of it differs significantly from the white paper they open-sourced. The actual app does not anonymize the data and the government has access to everyone’s location and interaction data. Initially, their privacy policy promised the data would only be used for tracking of the spread of…

Good thing the United States has a constitutional amendment that totally protects us from having our location data harvested sold and deanonymized by thousands of data brokers!