08/13/13, 02:02 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: True Northern California
Posts: 13,453
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The reason I posted this was that it was a good and fairly simple explanation of the world in which we now live.
One of the things that became really clear to me after the second Obama election was that too many people hear the spin polititians use as speech and actually stop thinking at that.
So that many simply do not see the ways in which this comforting blanket Obama weaves can be used to choke them. A bad case of sounds good so don't look too close.
This data is stored forever. Even the Library of Congress is spending money on facilities to store every Tweet ever made, calling it an important historical record. Tweets!
So what other that the proported use can be made of this data?
There is a troublesome politician the ones in power would like to go away. Well mine all the data to see if he didn't pay all his taxes 20 years ago, or check license plate locations to see if he was in a hotel in his home town to allege an affair, or did he get arrested in a drunk fight when her was 20, or did he made a stupid sounding Tweet 10 years ago etc, etc, etc.
If you are the one who has access to these records, while your opponent doesn't, you can throw enough dirt to bury your opponent. Maybe he can explain as much of it as he remembers but the simple amount of it will make him seem unsavory.
This is only one of many ways that this stuff can be abused without some rules and controls on the accumulation and access.
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For we used to ask when we were little, thinking that the old men knew all things which are on earth: yet forsooth they did not know; but we do not contradict them, for neither do we know.
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