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Re:NSA Buys Americans' Internet Data Without Warrants, Uncla... by salawat on Friday January 26, 2024 @05:49AM (#39141162)
Technically, if we'd consider corporations part of the government (which we arguably should; many acts of regulation that would be impractical to implement directly through the government are farmed out as the responsibility of corporations as a pre-req of doing business), many surveillance capitalism patterns would become fraught by default.

The "corporations aren't government entities" defies logic. As without government recognition, they aren't even a thing.

Re:NSA Buys Americans' Internet Data Without Warrants, Uncla... by pjc50 on Friday January 26, 2024 @08:47AM (#39142531)
> if we'd consider corporations part of the government (which we arguably should;

I'm not sure that even the Chinese legal system does that. It makes a nonsense of "part of".

Re:NSA Buys Americans' Internet Data Without Warrants, Uncla... by salawat on Friday January 26, 2024 @05:56PM (#39149954)
It does not. If you're a legal fiction, at some level your existential DNA is entwined with your political system's existence.

It doesn't make a nonsense of "part-of" at all; unless you don't want to inherit government centric probibitions to deal with in calculating your business model.