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(28,979 posts)the technology that made it possible for the government to collect so much more information so effortlessly. That is also a factor. Not just our government abused it. Corporations have. It happened slowly at first than spiraled exponentially. We really lost our privacy due to the development of computer cookie technology. It's almost as if the government took it for granted that no one would care, that we'd already surrendered most of our privacy already. And everyone was so into the 9/11 PTSD. Security. Alert. Heightened awareness. Gradual steps led us to the position we find ourselves in today.
Of course, we want to put the genie back in the bottle. But that is too late. All our info is compromised already. They have it. The banks have it. The commies have it. Everyone has it. We are well documented everywhere. We can only hope they have to store that information on antiquated systems that will continually need upgrading and will eventually die. I had an external hard drive refuse to read on me lately. The files may be there, but they cannot be extracted. Our cyber world does depend on manufactured parts to function. Pull the plug. Wait until the drivers fail. The data may still be there, but no one will bother to try and retrieve it. The information isn't carved on stone tablets. The machines will rust. The buildings will leak.
No reason to think Detroit is an anomaly.