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Re:U.K. demand for a back door to Apple data threatens Ameri... by ta1243 on Thursday February 13, 2025 @02:24PM (#43040119)
You might think you're safe because you don't carry a phone, never upload a photo, etc. You drove across the country in a car you paid cash for while bemoaning cameras that catch you speeding, in the name of "privacy". Meanwhile meta knows exactly where you are as their face recognition attached it to your shadow profile when someone took a selfie with you in the background, you were seen on a ring doorbell by amazon as you walked down the street

This "individualism" and "I'm alright jack" approach is a fallacy the world can't afford.

My government doesn't have a copy of my family tree or a good idea what my DNA is. Ancestry.com does.

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Re:U.K. demand for a back door to Apple data threatens Ameri... by itishappy on Thursday February 13, 2025 @02:43PM (#43040377)
> My government doesn't have a copy of my family tree

They absolutely do, your parents were on your government issued birth certificate, and the government issues marriage certificates and official name change paperwork too. I'd be a bit surprised if they don't some idea of your DNA as well, though I'd agree not to the level of Ancestry.

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Re:U.K. demand for a back door to Apple data threatens Ameri... by danielbln on Thursday February 13, 2025 @02:37PM (#43040302)
They all do though. Do you think the government isn't tapping the genetic databases of 23andme and Ancestry? Or the bottomless data out that is Gmail. Or iCloud. Or Gmaps location data.

I'd rather not decide who is the worse privacy offender, companies or governments, and best restrict both to a need-to-know basis.

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Re:U.K. demand for a back door to Apple data threatens Ameri... by ta1243 on Friday February 14, 2025 @06:22AM (#43047273)
They wouldn't be able to tap those databases if those private companies didn't make them in the first place.
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Re:U.K. demand for a back door to Apple data threatens Ameri... by danielbln on Friday February 14, 2025 @08:22AM (#43048020)
Until the gag order comes in to set those databases up. We need to hold both entities, private corporations and governments, accountable.
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