Also, add "erase digital footprint" and "obfuscate biometric identifiers" to attack on human rights checklist - try not to worry about how feasible the tasks are.
> Add "regime change" to the list of things you might have to worry about, even if you "have nothing to hide".
I think you don't need regime change to make something like that critical. Companies aren't institutions, they're organizations staffed by people and they have turnover. A company as it exists today is not the same as that company 5 years which wasn't the same as the company 10 years ago etc.
The decisions a company will make with data you provide them now may well change in the future - when their leadership changes, when the board changes, when the managers change, etc etc.
On top of that, companies are bought and sold. Blizzard was my favorite game developer but after a but of time under activision they don't seem to resemble the blizzard I remember when I enjoyed their products.
And police can get judges to sign subpoenas for data even if the company doesn't want to share it - if you sent dna to 23andme it's definitely something the police can use, for example, with enough justification.
Regime change is probably completely unnecessary to use your data against you, or in ways you never anticipated it being used.
I was hoping that "add to your list" implied that 1) the list had additional items on it and 2) whatever finite set the list contains, it's incommplete.
Yes: the context in which data will exist in the future is not the same as the context in which the data were initially provided or created.
Hell, even the context in which data are accessed or provided virtually always exceeds the data subject's awareness or understanding, and would not be considered acceptable.
I think regime change should've been pretty high up on the list for everyone already. The Soviet Union lasted for less time than the lifespan of people in developed countries. Around half the countries in Europe have only existed in their current form for a few decades.
Just wait till the taliban equip all the women with GPS monitored electro-shock collars. The combination of modern technology and maniacal ideology is a new scale of horror as we are seeing in the chinese concentration camps.
for a while I've thought that maybe ephemeral should be the default when it comes to public communications and data unless otherwise specified.
In this case it's literally a matter of life and death but there's so many ways in which this permanent accessibility can bite people in ways they can't even anticipate, and I really don't think we're wired for it. Also if you think about it the value of digital history that just accrues is probably zero, it's just a hoarding reflex.
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[ 2876 ms ] story [ 1388 ms ] threadAdd "regime change elsewhere and those to whom it might impact" if you feel that odds of such an event where you presently reside are low.
You'd need a forgery from one of the few remaining countries that don't do that, or smuggle yourself out in another way.
Any embassy in Afghanistan could issue those.
I think you don't need regime change to make something like that critical. Companies aren't institutions, they're organizations staffed by people and they have turnover. A company as it exists today is not the same as that company 5 years which wasn't the same as the company 10 years ago etc.
The decisions a company will make with data you provide them now may well change in the future - when their leadership changes, when the board changes, when the managers change, etc etc.
On top of that, companies are bought and sold. Blizzard was my favorite game developer but after a but of time under activision they don't seem to resemble the blizzard I remember when I enjoyed their products.
And police can get judges to sign subpoenas for data even if the company doesn't want to share it - if you sent dna to 23andme it's definitely something the police can use, for example, with enough justification.
Regime change is probably completely unnecessary to use your data against you, or in ways you never anticipated it being used.
Yes: the context in which data will exist in the future is not the same as the context in which the data were initially provided or created.
Hell, even the context in which data are accessed or provided virtually always exceeds the data subject's awareness or understanding, and would not be considered acceptable.
I’m American and have no Chinese heritage
Lots of cool stuff over there though, and industries for now
No reason to lose social standing over there, and this has no effect on my social standing over here, just inconsequential internet points
It shouldn't at all be something unexpected.
Entirely by coincidence, on the anniversary of Kristallnacht.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170604101018/https://plus.goog...
I'd rather go to unarguable-factbased-article.org myself.
In addition to the wasted trillions and humanitarian disaster, this might be the first time the sacking of a capital city is streamed on social media.
In this case it's literally a matter of life and death but there's so many ways in which this permanent accessibility can bite people in ways they can't even anticipate, and I really don't think we're wired for it. Also if you think about it the value of digital history that just accrues is probably zero, it's just a hoarding reflex.