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Story time! 🧵

Years ago I was doing digital human rights activism in Poland.

At a meeting on some legislative proposal, law enforcement rep kept arguing for more data collection and retention. NGOs (one of which I was representing) argued for less. Our argument boiled down to "this data will be misused, eventually."

After couple of hours of back-and-forth, the vice-minister of justice, presiding over the meeting, blurted out at us:
"why do you imply that I would abuse that data this way?!"