Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Government agencies should never be seen as victims.

That's a weird absolute, and that's before the side dish of theology and... Spiderman? You can be powerful or negligent or whatnot and still be a victim.



In this case, CBP is collecting this data without the direct consent of _the people_, so who in this case is accountable?

It's not _the people_ who made the decision to collect this data.


You can bear responsibility for something and still be a victim. It's really bizarre to suggest this is somehow not the case and to try to support that point with deities, comics and a call for GDPR legislation (for US federal agencies?). This kind of comment is the Markov chain with which threads are anchored to the bottom of the Abyss of Meaninglessness.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: