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posted by martyb on Sunday January 13 2019, @12:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the Hiding-In-Plain-Site dept.

Privacy advocates have been on about how big data and large datasets can be be used against the population for decades. Now key data released by the immigration department may provide the key to bringing barbaric crimes out into the open. Data released by the Government shows thousands of child brides allowed by immigration. Accounts by some of the victims detail how they were used to gain access to America even though they were underage. While some senators have sworn to close the loopholes used to bring child brides into the US we can only expect more of this type of activity to come to light in the future as the public engages in analysis of data released by governments.


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  • (Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Monday January 14 2019, @10:56AM

    by cubancigar11 (330) on Monday January 14 2019, @10:56AM (#786402) Homepage Journal

    This probably needs to be mentioned somewhere in the comments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe [wikipedia.org]

    "The vast majority of countries set their ages in the range of 14 to 16".

    I would say a large part of what you consider appropriate vs legal is very cultural. Furthermore, most of the time the child brides get better life quality than their parents because men seeking child brides are sought after iff they have a better quality of life than the bride.

    The situation is even more complicated because when the 80-year-old husband dies, the child bride and by proxy, her family gets the most legal rights over his property.

    I would say that one ought to follow the law of the land, or do enough to get it changed, but then I also think that there is no law that's fair to everyone. I haven't picked a side on that debate yet.

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