What Should We Think About Big Data That Aims to Help People?
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The US has declared all its spending on training the Afghan army secret.
This is a good way to hide inefficiency and corruption. Might there be any of those in Afghanistan?
The NSA still collects US phone call data en masse and still cannot justify it.
It is not enough to leave most Americans out of this collection. We must leave everyone out of it except court-designated surveillance targets.
The only case where you need to worry about the precise border of sexual consent is if you have sex with someone who is less than enthusiastic about it. Why even consider such a thing?