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It does seem to me like the US Vice President is advancing a pretty tech savvy policy. He's pushing for privacy. Am I missing something?


He's associated with Palantir. He can't be pushing for privacy.


Sure he can. In an ideal world (from the US gov't's perspective), all communications everywhere would be encrypted, and only they'd have the workarounds to access the data anyway.

I'm not being sarcastic. For real, what major government wouldn't want that in their favor?


They have to know that there's no monopoly on those workarounds.

Unless they're even more hubristic than we imagined.


Even if other nations have access to the plaintext, that beats all nations having that access.


I don't think they much care about all nations.

They care about maybe a maximum of five having that access, and I'm sure they realize that #1 on that list (PRC) won't need much time to become a peer on any given technology.


> they'd have the workarounds to access the data

That is the opposite of privacy.


I can’t sneeed


I think the non tech savvy policy makers in question are the British ones.


They're just against EU asserting any kind of control over American companies.

Reminder that he's funded by Thiel and friends with Curtis Yarvin, which goals include the end of democracy and the federal state and replace the system with tech CEO kings over feudal states.


i read from this that he wants US control, nothing to do with privacy


There is a lot of reflexive anti-Americanism on Hacker News. The US is generally assumed to be the bad guy.


I feel like the federal government continuously consolidating all data available under groups like DODGE or ICE or Palantir is about as anti privacy as it gets.




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