The thing that worries me most about all the personal data the government has is not its using it to indict people. It is that it will take information that wou

The thing that worries me most about all the personal data the government has is not its using it to indict people. It is that it will take information that would be embarrassing to politicians and either use it to blackmail them, or hand it over to the opposition to use in an election (from what I understand, J. Edgar Hoover did that). If that is going on, then you don't really have a democracy any more.