A more accurate title would be: the government revenue model is the privacy violation. Governments cannot be genuine allies of the people against corporate sur

A more accurate title would be: the government revenue model is the privacy violation. Governments cannot be genuine allies of the people against corporate surveillance, and for example, encourage privacy technology like public key cryptography, and client-side encryption, when their primary sources of revenue: the income and sales tax, depend on rampant and overt criminalization of privacy (KYC laws, income disclosure laws, record keeping mandates on the private activity of private citizens, etc).