Afghans scramble to delete digital history, evade biometrics
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Re: Afghans scramble to delete digital history, evade biometrics
#2Add "regime change" to the list of things you might have to worry about, even if you "have nothing to hide".
Add "regime change elsewhere and those to whom it might impact" if you feel that odds of such an event where you presently reside are low.
Re: Afghans scramble to delete digital history, evade biometrics
#3Add "regime change" to the list of things you might have to worry about, even if you "have nothing to hide". Add "regime change elsewhere and those to whom it might impact" if you feel that odds of such an event where you presently reside are low.
Also, add "erase digital footprint" and "obfuscate biometric identifiers" to attack on human rights checklist - try not to worry about how feasible the tasks are.
Re: Afghans scramble to delete digital history, evade biometrics
#4Just wait till the taliban equip all the women with GPS monitored electro-shock collars. The combination of modern technology and maniacal ideology is a new scale of horror as we are seeing in the chinese concentration camps.
Re: Afghans scramble to delete digital history, evade biometrics
#5Just wait till the taliban equip all the women with GPS monitored electro-shock collars. The combination of modern technology and maniacal ideology is a new scale of horror as we are seeing in the chinese concentration camps.
That's pretty drastic even for them. Even North Korea can't do that and they have an established regime.
Re: Afghans scramble to delete digital history, evade biometrics
#6Just wait till the taliban equip all the women with GPS monitored electro-shock collars. The combination of modern technology and maniacal ideology is a new scale of horror as we are seeing in the chinese concentration camps.
Think we might be waiting a long time for that.
Re: Afghans scramble to delete digital history, evade biometrics
#7The hubris of Reuters news using a domain called 'trust.org' is a perfect parody of today's media.
Re: Afghans scramble to delete digital history, evade biometrics
#8Add "regime change" to the list of things you might have to worry about, even if you "have nothing to hide". Add "regime change elsewhere and those to whom it might impact" if you feel that odds of such an event where you presently reside are low.
> Add "regime change" to the list of things you might have to worry about, even if you "have nothing to hide".
I think you don't need regime change to make something like that critical. Companies aren't institutions, they're organizations staffed by people and they have turnover. A company as it exists today is not the same as that company 5 years which wasn't the same as the company 10 years ago etc.
The decisions a company will make with data you provide them now may well change in the future - when their leadership changes, when the board changes, when the managers change, etc etc.
On top of that, companies are bought and sold. Blizzard was my favorite game developer but after a but of time under activision they don't seem to resemble the blizzard I remember when I enjoyed their products.
And police can get judges to sign subpoenas for data even if the company doesn't want to share it - if you sent dna to 23andme it's definitely something the police can use, for example, with enough justification.
Regime change is probably completely unnecessary to use your data against you, or in ways you never anticipated it being used.
Re: Afghans scramble to delete digital history, evade biometrics
#9Add "regime change" to the list of things you might have to worry about, even if you "have nothing to hide". Add "regime change elsewhere and those to whom it might impact" if you feel that odds of such an event where you presently reside are low.
I censor myself on Wechat as well as to avoid getting detained at the border in China
I’m American and have no Chinese heritage
Lots of cool stuff over there though, and industries for now
No reason to lose social standing over there, and this has no effect on my social standing over here, just inconsequential internet points
Re: Afghans scramble to delete digital history, evade biometrics
#10Add "regime change" to the list of things you might have to worry about, even if you "have nothing to hide". Add "regime change elsewhere and those to whom it might impact" if you feel that odds of such an event where you presently reside are low.
Data is forever. Privacy laws can change. Companies can break their privacy policies in bankruptcy. Even democracy is not guaranteed.