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Comment by cmdshiftf4

>Won't you feel good you are helping squash bigots by giving your PII away

That doesn't enter the equation for what I would imagine is 99.99% of users.

It's the erosion of privacy in the name of a) "Safety"

and

b) convenience

The average person of the world has shown that they will trade virtually anything for the perception of convenience, or "safety".

Look at the most recent gun ban in Canada for an obvious example; An act riddled with nonsense, already acknowledged to be completely ineffective at preventing gun crimes, pushed through by a minority government during a pandemic to the applause of a large part of the populace there in exchange for the false perception of "safety".

The most frightening thing is just how effective it is.

parent cmdshiftf4 6 years ago

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