Let Data be sunlighted.
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No, I understand that perfectly. You mooks are missing the key word in that tweet, which is "maximally". The type and magnitude of information that the government collects behind the scenes is truly upsetting and not all of it should come to light for the same reasons you don't want your browser's search history published for everyone to see. This isn't about the government, this is about shielding normal people from having the government dump all of said citizens' dirty laundry out in the open.
We do need to introduce privacy, data collection limit laws, and it is absurd the current status quo of our system.
Nonetheless, all the information you referenced is already available. I don’t know how, but I need merely start buying data from a handful of vendors. They have your browser and system fingerprints, the nodes that you connected through, etc.
and I'm telling you that that is surface level shit compared to some of what I've seen collected during my time as a federal contractor.
Crime statistics? Go ahead and publish it in full.
Literally everything they've ever collected? Bad idea.
National security reasons or philosophical ones?
More philosophical. Imagine if the government published every post you typed up but decided not to send and had the video and system evidence to back it.
People really have absolutely no idea how deep the rabbit hole can go.