I almost wonder whether these regulations exist not to protect data, but to lull the public into a sense of complacency. Perhaps that’s a tad conspiratorial, but so many laws exist to make legislators look good rather than serve their purported raison d’etre - just look at that OS-based age verification nonsense. At the very least, the national security state has a use for such things, regardless.
Fwiw, I got my first physical tinfoil hat from a friend warning about the debt crisis the USA was creating a year or so before “too big to fail.” I got a few e-tinfoil hats in the preceding decades.
Conspiracy hypotheses aren’t necessarily bad, although plenty certainly are. It’s just another term to silence dissidents.
Oh, for sure, but I do like to qualify my statements when I’m speculating without evidence. It is wild, though, once the you start seeing how much reality doesn’t align with the endorsed narrative.
My b. I’ve seen a lot and every time I think I’ve seen it all, I witness new security/federally protected data nightmares.
I almost wonder whether these regulations exist not to protect data, but to lull the public into a sense of complacency. Perhaps that’s a tad conspiratorial, but so many laws exist to make legislators look good rather than serve their purported raison d’etre - just look at that OS-based age verification nonsense. At the very least, the national security state has a use for such things, regardless.
Fwiw, I got my first physical tinfoil hat from a friend warning about the debt crisis the USA was creating a year or so before “too big to fail.” I got a few e-tinfoil hats in the preceding decades.
Conspiracy hypotheses aren’t necessarily bad, although plenty certainly are. It’s just another term to silence dissidents.
Oh, for sure, but I do like to qualify my statements when I’m speculating without evidence. It is wild, though, once the you start seeing how much reality doesn’t align with the endorsed narrative.
You got that right!