• XEAL@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    New thing could become mandatory in a future and give governments direct access to our eyes, thoughts, hearing…

    Smart phone tracking would become a joke in comparison.

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      1 year ago

      Do you always take things way further then they’ll ever go? It’s pretty much blatant flanderazation at this point.

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        1 year ago

        further then they’ll ever go?

        It may or not may happpen, but there’s a potential.

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      1 year ago

      We could also all be living under a social credit score system like in China, but most of us aren’t. Just because something could become our reality, doesn’t mean we should avoid all progress in that field.

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        But Smartphones are tracked and hacked by governments. And it is legal in most cases. And people are killed by governments.

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            In the end it doesn’t matter if it’s legal or not. They will do it anyways. Like it was the case with Preditor and the Greek government. Or Pegasus and Mexico. In the case of Pegasus and Mexico, people actually died.

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        […] we should avoid all progress in that field

        Who said that? Because I did not