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by matthjensen 1116 days ago
And big government, which demands information in many cases by law, is terrible at keeping that info "safe" in its hands once it's been collected.

Taking the U.S. federal government as an example, by my count we've already seen over 60 notable breaches in just this young decade: https://github.com/MattHJensen/US-gov-info-losses. Certainly many others have gone unreported or unnoticed.