Horrible analogy, as what did Nixon do with data towards citizens? It'd be more like the FBI, Hoover, CIA, NSA, etc... who have the capacity to bend the data to

Horrible analogy, as what did Nixon do with data towards citizens? It'd be more like the FBI, Hoover, CIA, NSA, etc... who have the capacity to bend the data to invent facts to fit some crime and then act on it with force without fear of repurcussion/retaliation. Also, if there were a proponent of this kind of collection, wouldn't it be fine for a company like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc... if someone with the position of US President wanted to "sit in the datacenter with an open laptop"? Because then they'd be using data as a currency, which they are already very comfortable and capable of doing to meet their own and the "gov" agendas.