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Re: by dkjaudyeqooe on Sunday February 09, 2025 @03:00PM (#42993318)
The amount of commercially and politically valuable information there is in these systems is incredible.

If these people are scooping up this information you can imagine they might be tempted to monetize or weaponize it at some point, or use the threat of such for their own gain.

This is absolutely chilling when you think about it.

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Re: by hypothesis on Sunday February 09, 2025 @04:47PM (#42994396)
The best part is that even if courts force them to destroy all the pillaged data right now, it won’t stop them from making stuff up and weaponizing it anyway.
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Re: by cduzz on Sunday February 09, 2025 @04:55PM (#42994471)
I wonder what this is going to do to the value of the dollar in the next couple years...
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Re: by whatwhaaaaat on Sunday February 09, 2025 @06:17PM (#42995134)
Were you asking the same question when the Biden admin weaponized the dollar?
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Re: by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 on Sunday February 09, 2025 @05:53PM (#42994957)
On the other hand, we may all experience privacy at levels uncomfortable for a lot of people, which MIGHT trigger some desire to actually make things more privacy conscious.
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