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Re:Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partne... by wu-ikkyu on Thursday September 29, 2016 @09:54AM (#12605226)
Why does it matter whether it is a government agency that has those data sets versus a private corporation?
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Re:Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partne... by ptero on Thursday September 29, 2016 @12:21PM (#12606489)
Because: (1) government can ignore some protections that corporations are supposed to follow and (2) government can act on this in a way corporations cannot (use this information to argue for or issue search / seize warrants, etc.).
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Re:Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partne... by wu-ikkyu on Thursday September 29, 2016 @01:11PM (#12606960)
>government can ignore some protections that corporations are supposed to follow

Vice versa is also true. Google and Facebook can censor free speech more effectively than any other, legally.

>government can act on this in a way corporations cannot (use this information to argue for or issue search / seize warrants, etc.)

Google and Facebook don't need a search warrant to scour and social engineer billions of people's lives.

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