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You are missing the third option: no scanning anywhere.

Well how about the fourth option: nobody ever does anything bad?

Seems about as realistic and well-grounded as your proposal.

>You are missing the third option: no scanning anywhere.

What a take. Thankfully the vast majority of Americans don't agree with you in the slightest. Also private companies can do whatever they please.

I don't think "pervasive digital surveillance is bad" is an unpopular opinion here.

HN is not America (thank god)

Private companies catching child predators is actually pretty popular.

And IBM compiling databases with ethnic background was pretty popular with a particular Teutonic political movement. You guys should look it up, you'll find lots of handy strategies to copy.

You're quite right. It's a reductive, simplistic opinion, but extremely popular.

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