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by xyz0 2807 days ago
But that person isn't attached to databases containing archived CCTV, scraped social media data [1], parking tickets, license plate reader data [2], phone metadata, or the myriad biased and unaccountable algorithms created by private companies, used to rank and sort humans [3].

Think about the implications for whistleblowers, journalists meeting anonymous sources, activists, immigrants, etc etc etc.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/us/nsa-collecting-million...

[2] https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/location-trac...

[3] https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...