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In the case of the example, it didn't work, but every day people are being dropped from their homeowners/car/health insurance.

Yes there are dangers there but they ultimately come down to evidentiary standards. We can't do the thing we always do where all risk is perceived based off of extremely rare incidents so we destroy everyone's privacy while the stuff actually harming people at scale is ignored.



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