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Re:Leaked doc shows how big companies buy credit card data o... by rhizome on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @08:20PM (#22480376)
The US learned in 2016 that information is a tool of war. Defending oneself against the encroachment of zero privacy operators is going to have to be fought with information as well. Laws have no teeth, which will continue to be the case indefinitely due to Citizen's United.
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Re:Leaked doc shows how big companies buy credit card data o... by allovernow on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @11:22PM (#22481179)
>The US learned in 2016 that information is a tool of war

Uh, people have understood the usefulness of information and information control for probably hundreds of years - at the very least since the cold war.

What do you think the CIA, KGB, CCP have been doing all this time?

I swear people just stopped thinking critically when Trump was elected. Things were broken long before 2016.

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Re:Leaked doc shows how big companies buy credit card data o... by rhizome on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @10:19PM (#22490654)
>What do you think the CIA, KGB, CCP have been doing all this time?

Sorry, information as the field of battle. To wit: the US lost an information war in 2016 and appears now to be occupied.

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