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This was bound to happen, and it’s ridiculous

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[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 11 points 20 hours ago

The thing that annoys me the most about it (well, aside from the massive invasion of civil liberties and general dystopian behaviour) is that we don't even get any of the fringe benefits of it. By that I mean, if I contact the government because I need some information about myself (recent examples: vaccine history, polling information, National Insurance query etc.) they act as if they've never been contacted by a person before and seem to immediately go into a panic and send you in a big loop of Other People Who Might Have It, with the end goal seeming to be "nobody knows where it is, let's just hope they give up and stop asking."

Like if the government must insist on tracking every single thing I do and say and look at and place I go to, the least they could do is actually have that info to hand so I can use it too. It seems the more they track us, the less capable they are of actually doing anything useful with that information.

[-] unknown@piefed.social 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Does the government actually own all this information about us though, or is it all outsourced with various private companies?

this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2025
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