[ExI] The Surveillance State Is Making a List, and You’re On It

[efc at disroot.org]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 4:37 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>       On Mon, 9 Dec 2024, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:
>
>       > This article makes a classic error: just because it is possible to do this to one individual at some cost, it assumes
>       the government
>       > is doing this to everyone.  This assumption ignores the massive cost to do this to literally everyone in the United
>       States of
>       > America, let alone the rest of the world.  Even the government sometimes does cost/benefit analyses and declines to
>       implement stuff
>       > that's massively costly for not enough benefit to it; tracking everyone all of the time is one such thing.
>
>       Au contrare, with governments, we know that _if_ there is a chance that
>       something will be abused, or used to gain more power, it will be done.
> 
> 
> Not in every case, regardless of the cost.
>
>       Therefore the mere possibility is enough to argue that the capability
>       should be shut down and destroyed.
> 
> 
> Necessity aside, how would you make sure it is destroyed, and not merely classified so we no longer hear of it?  At least today, we
> know of and can maybe counter it when necessary.

Always a problem. Let's cross that bridge when we reach it. My current 
favourite method is digital self defense, and occasionally submitting some 
GDPR complaints and generally threaten companies with GDPR complaints. 
Obviously I'm just one guy, but I try to inspire others. Imagine if 
everyone did this, then it would at least somewhat change the tune of 
companies! =)