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While this is an important part of history to know, the story didn't stop there, and certainly not with IBM. Computers/primitive-databases were also used to manage Japanese internment in the US, also using Census data. The Stasi used improved technologies to their advantage until the 80s.

You can draw a line from there to the NSA, surveillance capitalism, and the commercial data broker markets of today. It's just a matter of time until the information gets used.




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