Terence Eden personal blog

Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)

Imagine, just for a moment, that the Government wanted to keep a record of everyone's sexuality. They need to know this detailed demographic data because it will be highly useful in civic planning. It will help them work out what provision needs to be made for sexual health services, how many children are likely to be…
Points
455
HN comments
341
Submissions
1
Cited by
0 commenters

Society, Policy & CultureSecurity & Privacy2026

On Hacker News

SubmittedTitle on HNPointsComments
Aug 19, 2026Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013) by felineflock455341

More from Terence Eden

All 143 posts →

Related posts from the same era