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well that sucks

>>13603
Do they even gain any benefit from this

>>13605
Just data on everyone so they can pull it if they, in the future, suspect someone. It also has the potential for blackmail. This would be like liberal cancel culture, only instead of digging past to cancel you they find some other crime you did that went unnoticed if you are now suspected of a larger crime that you may or may not have done.

You know I grew up believing that they have unlimited data on everyone via your phone, via google, fb, and basically everything else. Why would they need to buy anything? These must be some small fry glowies.

Part of my takeaway from Snowden's whole NSA revelations is that they turned mathematics and algorithms developed to profile foreign targets on their own citizens.

Plus the whole Intel Management Engine means if they wanted to they can access your computer although I have never heard of this actually being used before.

>>13607
Who knows, I think theres a certain degree of seperation between what certain agencies access? I mean ice is barely just now getting zero click mobile exploits.

>>13606
Won't the data be lost over time?
>>13607
Should I switch to AMD then

>>13609
AMD has similar problems.
I advise you buy a system76 laptop and just install Artix or Devuan.

Not just glowies, employers are too so they can figure out if you're struggling and pay you less.
Y'all need to start figuring out how to not just protect your privacy, but actively poison the information there is online about you.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/employers-are-using-your-personal-data-to-figure-out-the-lowest-salary-youll-accept-c2b968fb

>According to Nina DiSalvo, policy director at labor advocacy group Towards Justice, some systems use signals associated with financial vulnerability — including data on whether a prospective employee has taken out a payday loan or has a high credit-card balance — to infer the lowest pay a candidate might accept. Companies can also scrape candidates' public personal social-media pages, she said…

>A first-of-its-kind audit of 500 labor-management artificial-intelligence companies by Veena Dubal, a law professor at University of California, Irvine, and Wilneida Negrón, a tech strategist, found that employers in the healthcare, customer service, logistics and retail industries are customers of vendors whose tools are designed to enable this practice. Published by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a progressive economic think tank, the August 2025 report… does not claim that all employers using these systems engage in algorithmic wage surveillance. Instead, it warns that the growing use of algorithmic tools to analyze workers' personal data can enable pay practices that prioritize cost-cutting over transparency or fairness…

>Surveillance wages don't stop at the hiring stage — they follow workers onto the job, too. The vendors that provide such services also offer tools that are built to set bonus or incentive compensation, according to the report. These tools track their productivity, customer interactions and real-time behavior — including, in some cases, audio and video surveillance on the job. Nearly 70% of companies with more than 500 employees were already using employee-monitoring systems in 2022, such as software that monitors computer activity, according to a survey from the International Data Corporation. "The data that they have about you may allow an algorithmic decision system to make assumptions about how much, how big of an incentive, they need to give to a particular worker to generate the behavioral response they seek," DiSalvo said.