> Such data could be used to link sailors to their immediate family members, locations, and behaviors, creating an avenue for blackmail or other coercive tactics to extract info from servicemembers.
Twice they say such information can be used for coersion, including blackmail.
That seems to understate the problem substantially. With our current social media and mass corporate data collection, every user's social networks and extensive personal details are collected and for sale. And it affects non-military people too. Look at people protesting certain things, who get doxxed and are threatened, at least, with blacklisting.
We could engineer networks that are far more private, and many have long predicted and observed the downside of mass surveillance. As long as we continue with the current technology, these problems seem unavoidable.
mmooss•2mo ago
Twice they say such information can be used for coersion, including blackmail.
That seems to understate the problem substantially. With our current social media and mass corporate data collection, every user's social networks and extensive personal details are collected and for sale. And it affects non-military people too. Look at people protesting certain things, who get doxxed and are threatened, at least, with blacklisting.
We could engineer networks that are far more private, and many have long predicted and observed the downside of mass surveillance. As long as we continue with the current technology, these problems seem unavoidable.