> I don't have much faith in humanity's ability to live within an anonymous I can imagine being comfortable with an anonymous free future. This future would re

> I don't have much faith in humanity's ability to live within an anonymous I can imagine being comfortable with an anonymous free future. This future would require much strengthened privacy protections, and even a very different looking government before I'd be comfortable however. I don't see those institutions giving us the protections we'd need. I suppose this thread has made me realize that an anonymous world is only required when our laws and institutions don't fully protect us as individuals.