Re:The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens
by JumpCrisscross on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:29PM
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> imagine the treasure troves of data that could be wielded against Members of Congress and other people in power
You are overestimating the frequency of these events, or the degree to which their perpetrators are aware they’re a liability. Seasoned members of the Congress are “on” all the time, egregiously aware of not only their own words, expressions, movements and probability of being surreptitiously recorded and tracked, but also how their competitors and allies might be and to what extent that can be turned or stockpiled for leverage.
The entity that orchestrated that outing, with the accompanying simple purchase of location data, etc. was a Roman Catholic newspaper known for high-quality investigative pieces. https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/pillar-investigates-usccb-g...
If such incriminating data is so easily procured against just one guy using a gay hookup app, imagine the treasure troves of data that could be wielded against Members of Congress and other people in power. Even in the absence of wrongdoing, I still don't think that public figures would enjoy having the public know their every move, every minute of every day, but the reality is that all the apps they run are phoning home and uploading that data constantly, unceasingly, and it's all for sale.