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Between letting Google scrape my communications and letting AT&T scrape my communications, there's no contest: AT&T is the lesser evil. Google is the flagship left-tech company, an aggressively bigoted leftist organization which celebrates anti-white anti-male values. Google's duopoly...

Encrypted enough that carriers can't bulk scrape their communications? Absolutely. Exposing some data to collection is an improvement on exposing all data to collection. The standard Google/Apple smartphone is a worst case scenario in just about every respect. Even a downgrade to a standard...

Data collection, storage, and analysis capacities have grown by multiple orders of magnitude in the last couple decades. There have been credits scores for longer than that, and FBI files on people, but they never had the capacities they have now until quite recently. Even using typewriters...

We had them before China did, issued by Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian. While they are not as thorough and compliance oriented as Chinas score, they have been used for a lot more than just home and car loans. Though I do wonder if that was really a bad thing. Western credit scores are...

Somewhat like 1984 -- but far more like Brave New World. People choose to carry these things everywhere they go, just like they choose to put alexa and google microphones around their houses, for convenience, pleasure, and status. It's not even hard to do without (I have), and it's possible...