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and eventually those tax reports and credit ratings will be tied to super market checkout systems. So governments can pick and choose which tax payers can eat what.

Any data that is aggregated is open to abuse by the aggregator and it will be definitely abused if the aggregator is a government body.



> tied to super market checkout systems

Norway is one step closer to that:

https://www.lifeinnorway.net/norway-to-track-all-supermarket...


I'd much rather have my government have info about me than Facebook.

Even in your contrived dystopia, I'd rather have a democratic government be the Big Brother than some unelected tech CEO.


Why do you have to bring FB into the equation? It seems you are mentioning it as a relevant alternative - what is that?

When somebody says "This may be controversial // Well, much better than being crushed under a rock", the latter is supposed to be rhetoric, here somebody seems to treat it like a real alternative, as if you went into the current events to avoid that!


That's a false dichotomy. We can create a world where our right to privacy is respected by both governments and the private sector.


It doesn't change the fact that our government is voted in, while private CEOs are moneyed in.

I trust the former more to have my best interests in mind.


The user consents to using a product, but not being born into a particular location



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Could you please elaborate your argument instead of just doing drive-by insinuations?




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