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   Danny Mekić (dannymekic@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 06:17:33 JST Danny Mekić

   'I have nothing to hide'? Yes, until the occupier suddenly turns up on your doorstep. Face recognition, all communications linked to your identity are scanned, and our modern electronic files contain not less, but much more and much more sensitive data, of many more people than in The Second World War. Useful for security? According to Professor Geoffrey Stone, it has never prevented a single attack.

   My fourth column in De Volkskrant 👇
   https://dannymekic.com/202401/nie-wieder-also-means-never-again-such-databases-of-personal-data

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     phiofx (phiofx@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 06:34:44 JST phiofx

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     @DannyMekic

     For some time I have been wondering how come it is primarily in Europe where one notices a feeble but still real resistance to the slide into digital surveillance dystopia.

     I have distilled it to two core factors:

     1) old fashioned nationalism, humoring ossified corporate classes that seek state protection from disruption

     2) still present memories of past horrors (wars, dictatorships) that destroyed this very continent. This incentivises civic society