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Re: “We kill people based on metadata” and other metadata things

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Re: “We kill people based on metadata” and other metadata things

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Metadata is data. There is no "just" metadata. Metadata is a relative classification of one piece of data compared to another piece of data, not an absolute classification.

So? why is that distinction important to you?

Re: “We kill people based on metadata” and other metadata things

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Re: “We kill people based on metadata” and other metadata things

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Good time to point out that Reality Winner is (edit: was) sitting in prison for less than what Trump appears to be guilty of.

Reality Winner was released from prison 14 months ago.

Cool, I didn't know that.

Now let's pardon her.

Re: “We kill people based on metadata” and other metadata things

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What has > Trump has already proven beyond a reasonable doubt to be guilty of. ? Has he ever been convicted in a court? Or did you mean a different phrasing about evidence?

Sorry, yes, poorly phrased. We don't know if he's guilty beyond reasonable doubt, and probably won't, because presidents and former presidents are immune to prosecution in this country. It's always possible the he had legitimate reasons for storing SC information outside a SCIF. No one can think of any, including his own legal team, but hey, ex-President, right?

> because presidents and former presidents are immune to prosecution in this country.

I think saying things like this is deliberately provocative -- it's not the case.

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Trump commits crimes flagrantly and to such a degree that Nixon never would have dreamed. He will get some kind of legal consequence ... eventually.

Re: “We kill people based on metadata” and other metadata things

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To me discussions about privacy often seem like bullshit. Here is a comment I wrote yesterday about a former AdWords employee as privacy violation apologist:

Hypocritically people bitch about intrusive data collection from governments and yet simultaneously give away the same data, and encourage others to do the same, and more to private companies knowing that data will be weaponized against them. As such it’s almost impossible to take any opinion promoting commercial violations of privacy seriously.

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