<story><title>Afghans Delete Social Media as Taliban Seizes US Surveillance Equipment</title><url>https://www.theepochtimes.com/stranded-afghans-delete-social-media-as-taliban-seizes-us-surveillance-equipment_3958444.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>potamic</author><text>This is why the argument that lack of privacy is justified for good intentions is moot. Time moves on, ideals change and people in charge get replaced. There is no guarantee that principles held when collecting information will remain. Every single piece of information about you can and will be used against you by people in power if it hampers their agenda. The only reasonable thing to do when it comes to privacy is to share nothing, unless the situation absolutely needs it. Anonymous identity is very critical for the functioning of a healthy society and the biggest evil Google and Facebook have done was to really erase this off the internet.</text></comment>
<story><title>Afghans Delete Social Media as Taliban Seizes US Surveillance Equipment</title><url>https://www.theepochtimes.com/stranded-afghans-delete-social-media-as-taliban-seizes-us-surveillance-equipment_3958444.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomc1985</author><text>Why oh why didn&amp;#x27;t the military destroy equipment left behind in the wind-down? At least at the bases... where they keep heaps of explosives for the purpose of destroying things?</text></comment>