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by wu-ikkyu 2973 days ago
>it’s impossible to know the untold disasters that it may or may not have prevented.

We do know, however, the type of disasters that mass data collection has created in the past.

IBM's mass data processing technology was crucial to the operational efficiency of the Holocaust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust