In your original comment, you were implying that societies that lose privacy go south very quickly. As in that loss of privacy is causal. I can't speak for Pol

In your original comment, you were implying that societies that lose privacy go south very quickly. As in that loss of privacy is causal. I can't speak for Pol Pot, since I'm not very familiar with his regime, but with Hitler and the Danish, my understanding is that record keeping aided in the German occupation. Not that the Denmark went downhill after it started doing meticulous data gathering. Can you give causal examples?