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Re:Rescue Forensics (YC W15) Helps Law Enforcement Find Vict... by trhway on Saturday February 21, 2015 @04:00AM (#9085113)
>We only redact copyrighted material, such as company logos or other intellectual property.

>Yes, so, you've got protection for companies

No, this protection is in the other direction - of their own lower back _from_ the companies. They don't care about smaller fish which can't bite.

Anyway, all this bro-hah-hah piled upon them is pointless. They are just one of many Palantir wannabes. There is no way they or others can be stopped. You can't stop the wave. A new kind of society is upon us where everybody would be able to know everything about everybody and thus information assymmetry power (be it of corporations, governments or whomever) will be no more.

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Re:Rescue Forensics (YC W15) Helps Law Enforcement Find Vict... by droopyEyelids on Saturday February 21, 2015 @10:20AM (#9085709)
That seems like an enormous leap, from corporations knowing everything about everyone, to all people knowing everything about everyone.
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Re:Rescue Forensics (YC W15) Helps Law Enforcement Find Vict... by trhway on Saturday February 21, 2015 @04:14PM (#9086971)
that is what was done by open source movement in software, and i hope the same "open information" thing will happen too.
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