Right, so basically they’ll have a database of who has (had) what app, when, and where…
Which could include apps like Grindr (way to target the LGBT community), or like Signal (way to target Journalists, activists, and other privacy minded people). You can find out a lot about someone’s app choices and in a state like Texas, which is conservative and authoritarian, that can be used to go after certain demographics.
Right, so basically they’ll have a database of who has (had) what app, when, and where…
Which could include apps like Grindr (way to target the LGBT community), or like Signal (way to target Journalists, activists, and other privacy minded people). You can find out a lot about someone’s app choices and in a state like Texas, which is conservative and authoritarian, that can be used to go after certain demographics.
Wait until they get that Grindr list and see all their buddies on it.
hold on, lemmie get a video…
https://youtu.be/ApuKFG8SUx4
Who is “they”? Google/Apple? Yes. But that’s not really anything new. Texas? I don’t think so.
Texas regularly proposes and passes regressive and authoritarian laws all the time. How do you think they will enforce them?
I don’t understand what that has to do with this conversation