Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr

Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by refurb on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:05PM (#23799112)

My comment was not directed at you, but more broadly what I read on HN. There is a very strong anti-gov't stance when it comes to privacy and surveillance, but a very strong pro-government stance when it comes to solving issues like healthcare, capitalism, R&D, housing, food, etc.

I don't see how those two can jive.

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Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by areeh on Monday July 13, 2020 @07:41AM (#23819658)

I'm curious what you see as the fundamental conflict here? Looking at my own European country, these are things we work on optimising at the same time, and I think we often do better at both than the US.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by anti gov't though, I just mean having laws and mechanisms that protect privacy

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