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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 5h

The answer is that governments *love* private sector data-collection, because it gives them a cheap, off-the-books source of warrantless access to information they aren't legally allowed to acquire: pluralistic.net/2021/04/13/p...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 5h

From Flock cameras to ICE's use of Google data in its ethnic cleansing campaign, the US government and the commercial surveillance industry have created a public-private partnership from hell.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 5h

It's a partnership where governments refuse to block commercial spying and companies hand their commercial surveillance data over to governments in return. From there, it was a short leap to governments *insisting* that the private sector gather our data.

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