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Exactly! I generally agree with the sentiment of the article, and see the importance for issues like healthcare, but that sentence seemed so wrong to me.

"People are living and dying without appearing on any database."

Isn't this, like, a good thing? Now on the other side, of course this is the definition of a first world problem, but not having a say in whether or not I actually want to appear in big techs databases isn't exactly ideal either!




What big tech databases are you forced into just by living? Do you count banks and social security here?


Facebook tracking people who never sign up for an account with them. Don't be dense, big tech does make an effort to track people who don't want to be tracked.

https://www.vox.com/2018/4/20/17254312/facebook-shadow-profi...


seems relatively insignificant to me.




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