Nobody is important until they suddenly are. The Nazis used highly in-depth Dutch census data during WW2 to hunt down and murder Jews and undsesirables in the

Nobody is important until they suddenly are. The Nazis used highly in-depth Dutch census data during WW2 to hunt down and murder Jews and undsesirables in the country. That data was considered harmless, even useful by the population to that point. Things changed, and that data became very useful to evil people. This is why people in Germany and many eastern European countries are not sold on government surveillance for their own good, they lived under pervasive Soviet surveillance. That kind of power can and likely will end up in the wrong hands eventually, so it is always best to keep it in check or just not have it at all.