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  1. Feb 2024
    1. the EU and U.S. would go a long way in setting better, democratic, global standards.

      I agree with this. If both countries worked together then the privacy issue could be resolved a lot faster but also have a lot more variety on how to move forward.

    1. In the meantime, there are ways that Americans can at least try to protect their own digital privacy.

      Are the solutions easy for everyday people and I think this article should have added how to do so.

    2. In contrast, the government in the Netherlands back in April actually abandoned its initial plan to develop a Covid-19 tracing app

      was the reason for this because it invaded so much privacy of a sick person?

    3. When I think about macro trends such as America's competition against China, it's easy to see how the government could favor weaker federal privacy regulations.

      The point of view for this article is weird to me. It seems a little more bias so self opinionated article.

    4. Federal law requires U.S.-based software companies and IT service providers to ensure that authorities can have access to all stored data, including data stored on foreign servers.

      I wonder if this is for a specific reason as far as terrorist threats and the safety of America.

    5. It's become the norm in the U.S. that online behavior gets tracked and used for a slew of subsequent manipulation.

      just off of reading this sentence alone I feel peoples online behavior should not be tracked unless they are showing signs that they may be harm to society.

    1. to make ourselves feel better about the choices we have made,

      I believe this especially when it comes to killers and other types of criminals. They try to make sense of why they did heinous crimes.

    2. All this was reported as fact, without any “maybes” or

      Since this was at least in my lifetime. I bet a lot of people turned against Bush. But this may have been a cause on what made people not trust new sources. What was the reason for lying about this I wonder

    3. The fact is, we humans aren’t wired to think very rationally

      How does that someone become "unwired to think rationally"? Is it how we are raised. I think this is one of those things that will be hard to change my mind on

  2. Jan 2024