A Boring Dystopia

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Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 months ago by destructdisc@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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Cool, cool cool cool. Nothing dystopian about that at all.

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[–] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yea for sure more accountable reliable systems would be better than worse systems great point.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Uhhh I think you completely missed what I was saying. I was explaining that collecting data is easy, but actually making use of that data is really hard, and gave a real world example of a trend that should be obvious being buried in a mountain of data because there's simply too much data to sift through

[–] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I gave you an out you entirely missed the point no one is talking about arbitrary amounts of arbitrary data the concerns are about things we say online being used against us in the real world.