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Campa@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.world – 31 points – The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens
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I know its not the first day they starts doing this,

but Censorship is everywhere now guys,

we need to try our best to avoid this.

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The problem isn't that your government buys the stuff, the problem is that companies just get that data for free...

The problem is also that the government can simply buy it without any kind of warrant or due process.

No, its on the free market, its like saying the government needs a warrant to buy Onions.

The bigger issue is that this data is available at all, China could buy it over shell companys for example.

This isn't about censorship it's about civil rights, and government agencies circumventing privacy laws by claiming that any data they can purchase is publicly available and therefore not subject to those laws.

The report notes: “The government would never have been permitted to compel billions of people to carry location tracking devices on their persons at all times, to log and track most of their social interactions, or to keep flawless records of all their reading habits. Yet smartphones, connected cars, web tracking technologies, the Internet of Things, and other innovations have had this effect without government participation.”

The government must appreciate that all of this unfettered access can quickly increase its own power “to peer into private lives to levels that may exceed our constitutional traditions or other social expectations,” the advisers say, even if it can't blind itself to the fact that all this information exists and is readily sold for a buck.