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Surveillance: too cheap to meter

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Either we slap a stiff tax on surveillance data, or we learn to love the panopticon.

 

Reply to: Just make sharing illegal

    (Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Thursday February 17 2022, @04:20PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday February 17 2022, @04:20PM (#1222518)

    The TelCo needs to know who made what calls and when for billing and the customers expect to be able to audit that information. So that information needs to exists for at least a billing cycle and probably longer.

    Taxing the collection of data that is necessary to run the business doesn't seem like it would work to me. It's not like they can switch to a less harmful alternative for that information which is what those type of taxes try to encourage.

    Instead I think we just need to make illegal the loophole of the government being able to purchase data they are not allowed to collect on their own. If they need a warrant to access my phone records for free then they should need a warrant to purchase those records too.

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