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Re:How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google by zapita on Thursday May 31, 2018 @07:18AM (#17195476)
The same technology you're developing to track personal info to sell ads is what hostile governments around the world use to suppress individual rights, imprison and kill people. The fact that you don't understand the irony in what you're saying is remarkable.

> Doesn't seem very strange, and I work at Google

Yeah... Your working at Google might be precisely why it doesn't seem strange to you.

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Re:How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google by TulliusCicero on Thursday May 31, 2018 @08:58AM (#17195913)
> The same technology you're developing to track personal info to sell ads is what hostile governments around the world use to suppress individual rights, imprison and kill people.

It is? Source on that?

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Re:How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google by cryoshon on Thursday May 31, 2018 @09:30AM (#17196125)
....tracking personal info is synonymous with the ability to abuse that info.

don't be naive.

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Re:How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google by TulliusCicero on Thursday May 31, 2018 @06:08PM (#17200759)
GP suggested organizations were using Google tech to do so, that's the part I find rather hard to believe.

Either that or by "same technology" they actually meant "different, but same kind of technology" in which case their point makes no sense. Making chemicals to sell to hospitals vs making chemicals to sell to terrorists are things that have different moral weight, even if the underlying thing being created is basically the same.

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Re:How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google by lostcolony on Thursday May 31, 2018 @09:37AM (#17196161)
Give me any sort of job that can't be abused.

Taxi driver? Oh, wait, there have been sexual offenders who have used their cars to molest and rape.

Micro-finance platform? Cool, you just supported putting poor people into debt.

Cancer research? Komens foundation.

Etc.

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