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Re:UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance by keont on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @02:43AM (#15497359)
Thing is, if they make a profile about you that includes race, religion, and sexuality, what is stopping them from denying a certain group of people a job in the public sector? Or to use it as basis to spy on you because "this type of profile tends to be violent/terrorist/communist/not patriotic enough".

Or to not give you social aid since you aren't the right type of profile.

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Re:UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance by lostboys67 on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @09:41AM (#15499035)
You mean like the European countries where you must have an id card that has race and region and the number of kids you have on it.

The European custom of attaching a photo to your cv is more dangerous and the eu should have outlawed that rather than say the silly cookie law

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Re:UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance by ginko on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @10:07AM (#15499228)
> You mean like the European countries where you must have an id card that has race and region and the number of kids you have on it.

What European countries would those be? The only country I even know of that tracks 'race' in census data is the US.

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Re:UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance by lostboys67 on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @10:54AM (#15499597)
Germany the id card data base holds a lot of very personal data
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Re:UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance by ginko on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @11:23AM (#15499864)
Hmm.. looking through what data the German resident register stores[1] there's not too much information I would deem too personal, apart from the religious affiliation maybe. They certainly don't track race as you wrote in your previous post.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melderegister#Inhalt

I gather you're from a country without a resident register?

EDIT: Also you shouldn't mix up the content of a resident register with the information you find on a public ID card. The information printed on those is a lot more limited.

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