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> 10 years ago this wouldn’t have been a big deal

Famous last words





That ship sailed for the most part. This data is already commonly shared between countries.

Multiple countries have already been sharing this information between eachother and the U.S. to some capacity for some time now and hardly anyone raises a stink about it [0] except us old-man-yells-at-cloud folk.

I think GP is right that if not for Trump, no one would care. Like the majority of the U.S.'s over-reaching policies that have largely only come under scrutiny in recent times (at least, amongst this audience).

[0] https://www.biometricupdate.com/202406/five-eyes-biometric-d...




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