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Foreign governments are probably having once in a century field day with the data they are harvesting.

This damage won't be fixed within the lifetime of anyone alive today.

We won't even see WW3 coming, just tiny footsteps and then BOOM some morning.

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what hyperbole. it’s just names and a dollar amount.

My credit report is just names and dollar amounts too. I don’t want the whole world having access to it.

heh. That's cute.

You may not "want" that. However, given the lack of consumer privacy laws in the US, anybody willing to pay can buy it from a data broker[1].

[1] https://www.experian.com/small-business/target-prospects

That sounds like an admission that it’s a bad thing and not an argument about why Musk’s department should be allowed to do more of the same with even less oversight.

hyperbole would be the wrong word. It think misinformation would be the correct word since the allegations were false rather than exaggerated.

Why would there even need to be a war, when you can just buy the country?

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