That's a strange thing to say. "The government" (whatever that may be) doesn't force anything on us. Yet, when everyone has email, that becomes a rather import

That's a strange thing to say. "The government" (whatever that may be) doesn't force anything on us. Yet, when everyone has email, that becomes a rather important data source. That draws the interest of those organizations tasked to keep us safe. They certainly wouldn't be doing their jobs very well if they left that trove untrawled, and voilà, soicograms of everybody. When everyone has a live audio feed from their homes to Google, Amazon and Samsung that becomes an even bigger data source. It would be unthinkable not to mine it and I don't think anyone knows what the effects of that will be.