Thanks, mr Kennedy! Your plan is working.

I just bought a new Ford Maverick for my business. It came with built in cellular data hardware -not optional. They say it is for diagnostics, updates, maps, and wifi-hotspot. It comes with the 1st year of data connectivity included. They want me to pay for additional years (no thanks!)

They do not say that they will not continue to use the connectivity for their purposes even if I don't pay to use it for my purposes...

The cost of the hardware is already included in the cost to manufacture the vehicle. In a bulk purchase agreement the size of a manufacturers entire production run, the cost per unit of data is pretty low. They could collect data for very little ongoing cost.

Ban the collection of these types of information about individuals beyond what is necessary for performing a service -and ban keeping any collected data longer than is necessary for performing the specific service. No database = no database searches.

Trying to tell the police not to use the data once it has been collected and correlated and offered to them packaged in a searchable database is like trying to ban a cocaine addict from snorting the line you just cut out for him.

Not in American law. We have a 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech -which includes the right to publish information that we know about an individual. Information belongs to the one who knows it. There are few restrictions on what can be done with that information -and the restrictions are explicitly defined in law.

In the EU information about a person is considered to be their information, and generally cannot be shared without their consent.

It is a fundamental difference.

No. The company offered the information to the government. Paying a fee for access does not meaningfully change the fact that the information was provided voluntarily.

If we want to protect privacy, we need to outlaw collection/retention beyond necessary of the data.

Looking at data-sets and seeing the pattern of money laundering is part of the job of IRS investigators -seeing signs that there is criminal activity going on and then deciding to launch an investigation is something that they should do. There is no need for a warrant to look at data that is offered. A fee for data-access does not meaningfully change the fact that it is offered.

If we want privacy, we need to outlaw collecting (or retaining after necessary usage) of the data. Making it illegal to sell or to purchase will not protect our privacy -data will be leaked. Only preventing the collection/retention will suffice.

Just up the page is an article headlining this type of incestuous investment I am referring to : https://slashdot.org/story/25/...

Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI-rival Anthropic announced strategic partnerships today that will scale Claude on Microsoft Azure and bring up to $15 billion in new investment to the AI startup. Anthropic committed to purchase $30 billion of Azure compute capacity and contract additional capacity up to one gigawatt. Nvidia and Microsoft -- the largest investor in OpenAI -- committed to invest up to $10 billion and up to $5 billion respectively in Anthropic.

A big issue in this bubble is how incestuous the deals are.

Example: Company A pledges to invest 1 billion dollars into Company B. Company B pledges to buy 1 billion dollars worth of compute time from Company A. Company A has increased their revenue by 1 Billion, and Company B has increased their market value by several Billion (1 Billion invested x whatever percentage of shares they gave). On paper, everybody is raking in $$, but in reality... no value is created. Add in another layer of Company A using their increased revenue to buy more datacenter equipment from Company C, who agrees to invest that revenue into Company B to use to buy more compute time from Company B... and it gets ugly.

It is all a house of cards.

They are just practicing on butterflies. You are next!
#QANON

For the same reason bank robbers rob banks: "It's where the money is."

Bad for you. Bad for me. Good for China.

The CCP don't care about you and me. Or about Chinese people. Or Chinese corporations. Only about the future of China. Everyone and everything is expendable in the service of their goals. This is just a small item on the checklist. The cost is irrelevant as long as the plan moves forward.

Time. How does it work? Things happen, but not all at once.

Your example is like saying you can't eat a delicious meal because it will just be poop tomorrow, and you won't eat poop.

This was (is) a significant part of the reason for the Belt & Road initiative -to create foreign markets for Chinese goods. The other part was to create indebtedness of foreign governments to China -with all the advantages that come from having other nations owe you more than they can reasonably pay off.

It is a massive exercise of soft power. Well planned and executed.

Sometimes it is just a correction and the market for the [product/service] continues at a more realistic pace. Other times it is a full devaluation.

If we allow this to infect every capital market, it will take everything down when it falls.

You cannot lock customers in. It is a safety issue.

The doors MUST open when pushed against. Even automatic sliding doors have safety hinges that allow you to push them open in the event of an emergency or power failure.

Beyond that, refusing to let someone leave could constitute false imprisonment.

Locking yourself in a store with a criminal is a good way to escalate a situation to violence. Sounds risky for employees and other customers nearby.