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Re:Losing the war against surveillance capitalism letting Bi... by banads on Sunday June 21, 2020 @11:52AM (#23592682)
Just study history, information is power.

Data harvesting and processing technologies were what enabled the efficiency of the holocaust.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

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Re:Losing the war against surveillance capitalism letting Bi... by sobani on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @04:58AM (#23611456)
Related: The Netherlands used to included religion in its national records. This allowed the Nazis to have a comprehensive list of all Jews.
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