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>Do you want strangers to learn all of your important personal information by reading the emails you send and receive?

You mean to say this doesn't concern you? That enough PII is being archived in multiple places indefinitely and could be used to build a find grained profile on you?

Imagine how much you can infer just from location data. Sexual orientation. Political affiliation. Religious affiliation. Now imagine what happens when authoritarian regime gains control of such databases. The largest nation on Earth has such a system already - it isn't far fetched.




It's just as problematic as the Ring doorbell, if not more so




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