• Maeve@kbin.earth
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    11 hours ago

    All these “unintentional” tracking devices begin to look intentional.

    • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Build a large enough catalogue of bulk data and anything can be used to track you.

      We bought “It’s just so we can catch the terrorists!” hook, line, and sinker post-9/11.

      But when “terrorism” is redefined as “making people in power upset,” we’re in big trouble.

      So don’t say anything rude about Donald Trump or the FBI will seek you out:

      https://invidious.perennialte.ch/watch?v=QS4bVx74nxU

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        44 minutes ago

        I never bought it, I was raising immortal hell then. But as a collective, yes we did, and as a collective, we’re sitting around moaning instead of doing something, anything, effective.