Keep Your Algorithms Out of my Data

The strange and awful case of Khaled El-Masri, my fellow Americans, is why we ought to be quaking in our boots about this (or any!) government dipping into the details of our private lives. Not only is it probably impossible to keep all the "data mining" from gradually expanding into an open pit of idiocy and perfidy, it's likely that at least some of the data uncovered by the NSA or whomever will result in false accusations, false imprisonments, false convictions.

Masri is the Lebanon-born German citizen who, in a case of apparent mistaken identity, was abducted by the US, was allegedly held in Afghanistan for four months where he was tortured, and then was dumped in the back woods of Albania to make his way home as best he could.

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