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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: Re:Just make sharing illegal

    (Score: 2, Touché) by fustakrakich on Thursday February 17 2022, @11:07PM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday February 17 2022, @11:07PM (#1222619)

    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.

    Anybody in the Party putting up a bill? Anybody on the ballot making it an election issue?

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