Add "regime change elsewhere and those to whom it might impact" if you feel that odds of such an event where you presently reside are low.
It shouldn't at all be something unexpected.
Entirely by coincidence, on the anniversary of Kristallnacht.
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I think you don't need regime change to make something like that critical. Companies aren't institutions, they're organizations staffed by people and they have turnover. A company as it exists today is not the same as that company 5 years which wasn't the same as the company 10 years ago etc.
The decisions a company will make with data you provide them now may well change in the future - when their leadership changes, when the board changes, when the managers change, etc etc.
On top of that, companies are bought and sold. Blizzard was my favorite game developer but after a but of time under activision they don't seem to resemble the blizzard I remember when I enjoyed their products.
And police can get judges to sign subpoenas for data even if the company doesn't want to share it - if you sent dna to 23andme it's definitely something the police can use, for example, with enough justification.
Regime change is probably completely unnecessary to use your data against you, or in ways you never anticipated it being used.
Yes: the context in which data will exist in the future is not the same as the context in which the data were initially provided or created.
Hell, even the context in which data are accessed or provided virtually always exceeds the data subject's awareness or understanding, and would not be considered acceptable.
You'd need a forgery from one of the few remaining countries that don't do that, or smuggle yourself out in another way.
I’m American and have no Chinese heritage
Lots of cool stuff over there though, and industries for now
No reason to lose social standing over there, and this has no effect on my social standing over here, just inconsequential internet points
In addition to the wasted trillions and humanitarian disaster, this might be the first time the sacking of a capital city is streamed on social media.
In this case it's literally a matter of life and death but there's so many ways in which this permanent accessibility can bite people in ways they can't even anticipate, and I really don't think we're wired for it. Also if you think about it the value of digital history that just accrues is probably zero, it's just a hoarding reflex.
