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Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by sweetbitter on Thursday February 10, 2022 @02:04PM (#30290908)
"We kill people based on metadata." - Former NSA Head Michael Hayden.
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Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by nickpp on Thursday February 10, 2022 @02:27PM (#30291192)
Last I heard, the NSA was a governmental agency, not a corporation.
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Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by sweetbitter on Friday February 11, 2022 @12:27AM (#30297392)
And governments now outsource some of their functions to bigger corporations as a loophole around human rights- mass spying and censorship, for example.
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Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by nickpp on Friday February 11, 2022 @03:11AM (#30298539)
Then let's fight the actual problems - the governments - and stop going after the decoys. Let's make it illegal for government to access and use business data. That will fight the actual problem while allowing businesses to keep serving us better.
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