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by mattrighetti 1173 days ago
Let's not forget that these people, not a long time ago, worked hand-in-hand with the government to promote contact tracing applications at a time where it was clear that they could potentially be used to steal data from their users.
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The bureaucrats were sure to add clauses to their privacy laws to grant themselves carte blanche powers during “extraordinary events”

All they needed, then, was to have an event appear “extraordinary” and they could legally compromise the privacy of the entire population.