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by xiphias2 2252 days ago
> FYI they probably don't have the capability to do a whole lot with location data anyhow.

I thought before that Hungary won't be able to implement a survaillance state that fast, because the government doesn't have any IT capability, but what's happening is even scarier: they started outsourcing it to Chinese companies, and I wouldn't be surprised to see that trend continuing.
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xiphias2 2252 days ago
I believe that Palantir is behind China in surveillence software (especially gathering data about people from public cameras, but of course using GPS data is much easier.

Of course the funniest thing is that the name of the surveillence software is SkyNet, because the CEO of the company loves Terminator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLo3e1Pak-Y

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