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Re:Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People by wwweston on Saturday July 07, 2018 @04:09AM (#17477626)
Isn't Cato about "a political agenda" here in the same way the same way the EFF has political agendas?

This issue is political in the sense that it's very much about social policy... and it's just possible that it's bad social policy to let people perform/offer surveillance-at-scale as a service.

(It is kindof funny to see Cato discover one significant limit of a general philosophy of private market freedoms, though.)

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Re:Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People by analyticascent on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @07:13AM (#17506003)
Specifically, they take issue with the government creating demand for surveillance technology. Nothing unusual for a public policy organization that has Cato's perspective.
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