[paganel]

> That is the problem: we have nothing to hide until someone changes the law.

As it happens the Dutch authorities were pretty good with collecting ethnicity and confessional data in the inter-war period, then the very bad guys came along and we know what followed.

Data collection at scale and especially data centralization has always been a mistake, too bad many of the livelihoods of us here depend on exactly that.

[fluxinflex]

the only good data is the data that isn't collected.

[diceduckmonk]

Maybe employers and schools should stop collecting diversity data in case a less inclusive nation invades the United States.

[paganel]

In the US’s case I don’t think it would take an invasion to put people’s lives at risk because of innocuous (at the time) data collection on sensitive societal issues. This article is just proof of that.