The Google Big Brother Thread
The Google Big Brother Thread
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- lukus_W0
You need to bear in mind that the right to privacy is an essential right - not because people deserve opportunity to evade prosecution, but because lack of privacy (or total access to a person’s thoughts and ideas) gives any unacceptable amount of power to the person or organisation which has access to it.
Any government or organisation - even when set up in a benign capacity - operates via interactions with regular people .. and these people have flaws like you or I do. Without a doubt, some will choose abuse power, and privacy laws are important because they limit the very worst possibilities from occurring.
If you don't care about your privacy, you are essentially saying you don't care about your freedom.