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1. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Aug-2021 15:40:56 UTC simsa04
   Sam Sabin & Heidi Vogt, "‘An enormously valuable trove’: America’s race against Afghan data" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/24/taliban-afghan-data-target-allies-506638
   
   « The U.S. helped create some of the data through funding and efforts to modernize the government. The former Afghan government started collecting biometric data about Afghan citizens, including military personnel, in 2006, and the U.S. government helped the country set up the ability to wiretap and monitor phone calls for surveillance purposes. Afghan citizens’ ethnicity information can also be found in databases supporting the national ID system and voter registration. »
   
   This is so awful.
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} repeated this.
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Aug-2021 18:04:08 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     And this is what people have said all along: when someone less committed to using data for its stated purpose takes over, the more you collect, the more can be misused.