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The whole point of the story was what can be done with your information, behind your back.
The example is as common as the error rate of all bureaucrats combined.
The severity of those errors are a measure of how much power government holds over our lives.
The guarantee that such systems will be abused is because it is human nature to do so. The evidence that pols can't be trusted is your own history of postings about W.
My information is mine. If the paper publishes my picture that it got/bought from the DMV, when I had an expectation and a trust that it wouldn't, I have been wronged. And I can't opt out of the DMV system without giving up my right to drive on the public roads.
In WWII, US Census records were used to simplify the effort of rounding up Japanese Americans to be held in camps. Now you want the Gov to have the ability not only to identify us by race -- enough of a losing idea to crush it -- but to have universal access to a literal ton of information about us.
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