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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Every search you make, email you send, text message, voice chat, location, and most likely the conversations you have in your own home are monitored and stored in a database for whoever knows how long (probably forever). When I hear land of the free, I immediately think bullshit. We are slowly losing our freedoms, what can we do to prevent this? I mean, when Edward Snowden dropped the leaks, people protested, but barely anything changed. What can we do? This post not only applies to Americans, your own government in another country may possibly does the same thing. Feel free to comment!

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

Better buckle up Buttercup, because "being in a database" is a reality. Thanks to data breaches such as Equifax, pretty much every US citizen and all their important details are available in numerous databases.

We willingly purchase devices that listen and watch our every move... to be added to private, corporate databases that get sold around like cheap prostitutes. At least with government databases, voting gives at least a teeny, tiny modicum of control.

And even better, while I cant name specific breaches in relation to global populations, it's a safe bet most everyone else is compromised as well.

On the bright side, at least it makes random identity theft occurring to any one particular individual akin to winning the PowerBall.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

When a regime can literally track what their entire population is doing at any given moment but won't make easily fileable taxes ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If US finally gets its second civil war, its really easy to pick who goes in to the mass graves. You can just use an algorithm.

Same goes for the rest of the world. If ever occupied by Russia, you can be sure you'll be "calling Zelenskyi" on a daily basis for every anti-Russian post you ever made.

this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2024
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