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Originally Posted by punky
I suppose they haven't heard of the term "far-fetched", but it is done by the ACLU, so that figures...
As George Carlin said, in comedy, something has to be way out of proportion, that gives you the joke.
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Exactly the point, and Spitting Image used grotesque parody to make sharp political points for a decade. Of course it's very, very unlikely that Domino's will have access to that kind of data any time soon, if ever, but the dangers of a single point of access for all data held on an individual are clear.
The State exists to ensure the conditions are right for a free and fair society to flourish, and to do so with the absolute minimum of intervention. It serves me, not vice versa.