[HN Gopher] Afghans scramble to delete digital history, evade bi...
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       Afghans scramble to delete digital history, evade biometrics
        
       Author : dave_aiello
       Score  : 35 points
       Date   : 2021-08-17 19:43 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (news.trust.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (news.trust.org)
        
       | 99mans wrote:
       | The hubris of Reuters news using a domain called 'trust.org' is a
       | perfect parody of today's media.
        
       | dredmorbius wrote:
       | Add "regime change" to the list of things you might have to worry
       | about, even if you "have nothing to hide".
       | 
       | Add "regime change elsewhere and those to whom it might impact"
       | if you feel that odds of such an event where you presently reside
       | are low.
        
         | vmception wrote:
         | I censor myself on Wechat as well as to avoid getting detained
         | at the border in China
         | 
         | I'm American and have no Chinese heritage
         | 
         | Lots of cool stuff over there though, and industries for now
         | 
         | No reason to lose social standing over there, and this has no
         | effect on my social standing over here, just inconsequential
         | internet points
        
         | LegitShady wrote:
         | > Add "regime change" to the list of things you might have to
         | worry about, even if you "have nothing to hide".
         | 
         | I think you don't need regime change to make something like
         | that critical. Companies aren't institutions, they're
         | organizations staffed by people and they have turnover. A
         | company as it exists today is not the same as that company 5
         | years which wasn't the same as the company 10 years ago etc.
         | 
         | The decisions a company will make with data you provide them
         | now may well change in the future - when their leadership
         | changes, when the board changes, when the managers change, etc
         | etc.
         | 
         | On top of that, companies are bought and sold. Blizzard was my
         | favorite game developer but after a but of time under
         | activision they don't seem to resemble the blizzard I remember
         | when I enjoyed their products.
         | 
         | And police can get judges to sign subpoenas for data even if
         | the company doesn't want to share it - if you sent dna to
         | 23andme it's definitely something the police can use, for
         | example, with enough justification.
         | 
         | Regime change is probably completely unnecessary to use your
         | data against you, or in ways you never anticipated it being
         | used.
        
         | criticaltinker wrote:
         | Also, add "erase digital footprint" and "obfuscate biometric
         | identifiers" to attack on human rights checklist - try not to
         | worry about how feasible the tasks are.
        
       | hamburgerwah wrote:
       | Just wait till the taliban equip all the women with GPS monitored
       | electro-shock collars. The combination of modern technology and
       | maniacal ideology is a new scale of horror as we are seeing in
       | the chinese concentration camps.
        
         | MeinBlutIstBlau wrote:
         | That's pretty drastic even for them. Even North Korea can't do
         | that and they have an established regime.
        
         | smabie wrote:
         | Think we might be waiting a long time for that.
        
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