They want everyone’s private data to be accessible and actionable. It’s not even about avoiding the hassle. It’s about you not being able to avoid them.
Now, think about how much they could use this to crush dissidence and prevent assemblies of protests or worse, jail people because they criticise the government.
I got nothing to hide. By today’s standards. If it changes, and criticising my country’s government becomes a legal offense, then I would be a criminal. So would most people I know.
This is about control. Surveillance is always about control. It’s disguised as a necessity through the paranoia that those in power help veiling over us.
They want everyone’s private data to be accessible and actionable. It’s not even about avoiding the hassle. It’s about you not being able to avoid them.
Now, think about how much they could use this to crush dissidence and prevent assemblies of protests or worse, jail people because they criticise the government.
I got nothing to hide. By today’s standards. If it changes, and criticising my country’s government becomes a legal offense, then I would be a criminal. So would most people I know.
This is about control. Surveillance is always about control. It’s disguised as a necessity through the paranoia that those in power help veiling over us.