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Originally Posted by Jonas777
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Any system that is open to being abused will one day be abused, whether it's by your boss, your politicians, or merely your disgruntled boyfriend/girlfriend. People need to remember that and act accordingly. My response is to try and give them as little as I can and to fight any erosion of individual rights however I can.
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
For my part, I see no particular cause for concern. YMMV. But if you're worried about this, I will say you are going to find it harder and harder to deal with an increasingly interconnected world, let alone fill out your census form.  |
Your reasoning seems to be that there is already a ton of info "out there" so we may as well just give up and let them have the rest. Forget privacy? Forget (for U.S. residents) the 4th and 5th amendments? Forget the 1st amendment? (it won't mean a thing to have "free speech" if people become afraid to use it when everything is stored "in the cloud")
You (and others) see no cause for concern? There are legions of historical examples to prove you wrong. Your attitudes of
It Can't Happen Here will serve the next purveyors of dystopia very well. I suspect you were a mere babe in
1984 so welcome to the
Brave New World.