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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.

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  • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday February 19 2022, @07:22AM

    by RS3 (6367) on Saturday February 19 2022, @07:22AM (#1223065)

    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.

    How about we charge them with receiving stolen property? How about good old wiretap laws? I'm sure there are many more applicable charges.

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