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US military uses meta data for drone strikes,

> In 2014, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden said in a public debate, “We kill people based on metadata.”

> According to multiple reports and leaks, death-by-metadata could be triggered, without even knowing the target’s name, if too many derogatory checks appear on their profile. “Armed military aged males” exhibiting suspicious behavior in the wrong place can become targets, as can someone “seen to be giving out orders.” Such mathematics-based assassinations have come to be known as “signature strikes.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-...

I would prefer the country that I don’t live in and doesn’t have authority over me to have this data.

WeChat calling works amazingly well in low/bad data situations.

In places where I have almost no signal, a WeChat call will still sound good.

And these characters are typically paired up with the white male hero. Isn’t this more indicative of the director’s or writer’s fantasies?