You're correct, thanks for pointing that out! 😅 Oops.
I guess you could say it comes down to power as a way to tie the two. In this case information is power: your spending habits, postal address, favorite yogurt, what you look like naked.
Looks like you were right the first time, it was John Yoo who said
'If the President deems that he's got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person's child, there is no law that can stop him?', to which Yoo replied 'No treaty.' Cassel followed up with 'Also no law by Congress—that is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo', to which Yoo replied 'I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that.'
So yea, I hadn't heard of that, but in a way it doesn't surprise me, though perhaps it should.
Anonymity reduces the power such bad actors have over us.
Knowledge is power, and our data has power over us.
Absolutely. So thanks for pointing out my non sequitur.