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You realize that this kind of power will be banned and put under the control of the government only right?

We can't have companies violating privacy like this. Only the government can do that.



>Only the government can do that.

Why would the government want to spend the money and PR capital developing and rolling that out, when they can have a company do it for free, take the heat, chest beat about private enterprise, and then secretly NSL subpoena or crack it and distribute the intelligence to every interested agency, police department, and eventually favored corporate interest (using parallel construction as needed)?


I took it more as a comment on public opinion than on government policies.


But companies already analyze vast amounts of data, so I don't see how this is different.




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