It what world do you all live in where this wasn’t accomplished for hundreds of years by hiring an investigator?
The difference is that with modern surveillance technology you can do it with everyone all the time. And that’s a big difference.
Great read, thanks! That’s what many people of the „I’ve got nothing to hide“ crowd don’t understand. Now they think it may be relatively irrelevant if this data is collected, but what if we get a new right wing government in the future and you’re - for whatever reason - the target of the oppression? The data doesn’t go away.
Any government having this amount of data is bad, no doubt, but it may be scarier to me that any individual could use it for their own reasons. Imagine the devastation this could enable in the hands of a violent white supremacist, for example. Even a super-stupid one. I mean, any building with an address where communities gather is a nexus for identifying whole groups of people. Follow the dots home from a mosque or synagogue, and we’ve got ourselves a problem that I don’t know how we solve right now. I hope the widespread hate isn’t as bad as it feels.
Imagine the devastation this could enable in the hands of a violent white supremacist, for example.
Any run-of-the-mill stalker in the middle of escalating who has access to this kind of information (or is willing to pay to get it) will be all that and more for an individual unlucky enough to attract their attention. Don’t have to wait for a horrific example, they’re already all around us.
