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• onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re kidding right? Money can’t ruin lives?

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  • netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It definitely can. But Google won’t randomly spend money in order to ruin your life. They will do that with your data though as can be seen in many unfortunate cases like these: phoenixnewtimes.com/…/google-geofence-location-da… nytimes.com/…/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.h… And it’s not just Google. Any data you expose can and will at some point be used to absolutely fuck you. The Snowden leaks have proven this.

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    • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s a direct impact, for sure, but money gives them power to build better surveillance, influence the public, influence politics, buy up competition and so much more. They affect you indirectly and over a much longer time-period.

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