Not sure about how newsworthy this is, as it seems rather obvious and is based on different newsworthy sources. By itself, it is not high of content though.

Still, discussion about this issue is worth it.

Given the author's other post on Twitter

> In the 1930s and 40s, Thomas J. Watson’s IBM punch-card mainframes helped Hitler perpetrate the Holocaust.

> Imagine what IBM Watson can help dictators achieve today with AI.

(Apart from having to think about China's credit score system about which a Black Mirror episode is devoted already.)

This made me think of the tangent of the book IBM and the Holocaust [1] which is still on my to read list. AFAIK, in my country (NL) IBM's machines were used to sort based on religion [2]. It is a major historical reason why one's religion is nowadays consider PII. Of course, it is easy to check is someone regularly buys kosher or halal meat at the grocery store...

Data is a ticking time bomb. Or, as Bruce Schneier wrote in an essay, "data is a toxic asset." [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_subsidia...

[3] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_tox...