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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Suicide hotline shares data with for profit company (www.politico.com)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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“These are people at their worst moments. Using that data to help other people is one thing, but commercializing it just seems like a real ethical line for a nonprofit to cross.”

Jennifer King, privacy and data policy fellow at Stanford University

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

So did the Nazis, so do the USA, China and Russia today. The latter three found out that if you swap hard with soft power, eternity is much closer.