Thinking about people's personal information:
I've been having a lot of strongly-reactive feelings to these conversations & I'm sorting it out:
1) I work in libraries. At our best, we take personal info/privacy very seriously because historically libraries HAVE been targeted w/subpoenas etc. to get patron data.
1a) Therefore, I'm an advocate of "they can't get what you don't have/keep."
1b) See Connecticut Four for a recent case of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Four
2) As I mentioned, the acronym ICE means something else first to me. And THEY are people I worry abt targeting our patrons.
2a) So, to me, giving personal info to ICE == destroying lives.
That doesn't mean my feelings are right. Just that they're my feelings and since I've figured out there's some actual logical things behind them, I wanted to share that out for consideration. Thanks.
also I understand the community-based impulses to want to care for people you fear may be in danger and I don't know how to balance that. It's a good thing to want, just data is scary.
@ruth This is why I encourage people to set up a canary. Gov gag orders can prevent you from saying anything - but they cannot generally compel an action. So a canary where the alarm goes off through inaction is the best.