The problem with collecting data is not the (hypothetically) legitimate, laudable, positive uses of it — but how it could be misused by its guardians or by others, now or in the future …
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What If China Hacks the NSA's Massive Data Trove?
What If China Hacks the NSA’s Massive Data Trove?
The danger of creating data sets that would permit a foreign government or non-state actor to wreak havoc on Americans.
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What do you mean, "What if." It's probably already happened.
Which, of course, China will categorically deny, and insist that it happens to them, too, and they're just as much a victim as anybody else.