>After WWII a considerable amount of support was put behind Israel (and rightly so).
I'm guessing those who lost their families and homes at gunpoint would disagree with that being "right". Each intervention creates more victims, it's just that some are more easily written out of history.
Anonymization of data is not a simple task. Even with the noblest of intentions things can go wrong. See the problems with the sharing of medical data in the UK and examples from the US [1].
Even with the best of intentions things can go wrong and there are lots of unanswered questions in this emerging field. I'm sure the medical organizations involved are very aware of these problems, like protecting the privacy of those in the datasets. We've seen medical data de-anonymised in the past - it's not a trivial problem to solve. Likewise there are moral issues. What happens if you discover X% of people in the study have an extremely high risk of developing Parkinson's? Do you contact them? Do they have the right to know? Do you have the right to tell them? Would they even want to know? These are questions we're only starting to think about now.
Nothing surprising, although "rightdoing" sounds like it's straight out of 1984. Of course any administration is going to say all its actions are good. Things are bad, like spying on your citizens or negotiating away their rights, when other countries (who are not your allies and sharing data/trading with you) do it.
It's not accurate. See [1]. Some of the material is sourced from PR statements from foreign governments like Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
It's ironic that an anti-terrorism list is been used by brutal, foreign regimes to co-op British banks and institutions into harassing people whose only "crime" has been becoming members of groups they don't like.
I doubt it. They completely lack the community support they had in the past for any sustained anti-government action. Sinn Féin are only posturing on the border poll idea and they know they would lose by a wide margin anyway.
Yes. It's bad when Microsoft does it this way because it's opt-out. IntelliJ/Android Studio prompts you and asks you your preference first. I think Eclipse is opt-in but could be mistaken.
Homebrew is opt-out post-install by setting a flag as well (no option or warning pre-install). But they do remind you afterwards that they are tracking and give you a link to learn how to disable it.
As long as no data is sent until first use (giving you a buffer to opt-out), I don't have an issue with this.
