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Re:"We would be less confidential than Google" Proton threat... by anal_reactor on Saturday May 17, 2025 @03:48PM (#44016501)
Hot take but it makes sense to get rid of privacy under certain circumstances. What if we created a political system where you can trust the government to do a good, honest job. Privacy is needed because goals of the government aren't always aligned with goals of the society, but what if that wasn't the case.
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Re:"We would be less confidential than Google" Proton threat... by maronato on Saturday May 17, 2025 @04:57PM (#44016933)
Once you lose privacy, you can never get it back.

The population may trust the government now, but totalitarian regimes are returning to fashion and love when they can skip the data collecting bureaucracy and go straight into building or offshoring their gulags.

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Re:"We would be less confidential than Google" Proton threat... by beeflet on Sunday May 18, 2025 @12:00AM (#44018915)
yeah, what if? :P
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Re:"We would be less confidential than Google" Proton threat... by bvnierop on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @10:53AM (#44042325)
The problem is that while the goals of today's government may align with all of society (which is already never going to happen), that says nothing about a future government. That future government may have far more nefarious interests and then use data gathered under the government that was trusted to achieve their goals.
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