It's not a joke,.if you see how quick naI Germany found all the Jews in Holocaust. Us researchera said it would take a team of researchers 2 to 3 years to find all the Jews manually. Germany was so quick because a few years or decades before there was a census made with the help of IBM machines, and all information was automatically processes to get Jewish addresses very quickly. So a naive census done some years before, where everyone would have said "what's the matter" was then used to exterminate 6 million people. Having your life constantly nowadays is all strategic info the next genocidal dictators in your country needs. #privacy #bigdata

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IBM and the Holocaust

Twenty years ago this week, my book, IBM and the Holocaust, exposed—backed up by a tower of documentation— that IBM knowingly organized all six...

I read the article and rembered these simple data processing machines from the books I read as a kid. IBM actually enabled that every person gets unique "QR" code in the format of the punch cards.