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Insane. When businesses are building massive systems to identify and track the citizenry, the government should step in and stomp it out. Instead, the government is mandating that it proceeds.
The system is functioning as expected. The system must be destroyed.
That's the neat part when you blur the lines between the government and the private sector. So-called leaders who are interested in power, control, and "winning" more than upholding their oaths of office can just use the private sector to do the things the government is restricted from doing. Then when their businesses can't compete on their own, they can lean on the legal + force options the government has.
I'm starting to think this habit we have of electing selfish sociopathic bad-faith actors to powerful positions of service is less than optimal.
Someday soon, and it isn’t as far off as some people think: the government will know who we are.
We can use their weapons against them by using leaked biometric data to destroy the lives of politicians.
What are they gonna do, change their face??