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pfdietz • today at 3:32 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I was asking for what had happened, not what you imagine could happen.


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garciasn • today at 4:00 PM

Buddy; governments move over decades and centuries, not minutes and hours. You cannot measure the effect of government action in the immediate like you want to.

The fact that the government is moving to collect these data as well as partner with third-party private industry (e.g., Palantir) to avoid direct data collection that runs counter to current/settled law, you have to begin to piece together the future.

Regardless of your apparent desire to avoid accountability for the US government's actions, potential or actual, these are truths for which the citizenry need to protect themselves against both by their own individual actions as well as the collective actions of their voting behaviors.

vikramkr • today at 5:34 PM

Dude they 100% do and have lmao that's not some hypothetical. People have been tracked down with 23 and me data by the feds.

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