"I was having a conversation with a senior government official I have know all these many years who work in the White House and I said you're changing American

"I was having a conversation with a senior government official I have know all these many years who work in the White House and I said you're changing American society. He said well we realize that we need a robust social graph of the United States. I said, you mean the United States Government is from now on going to keep a list of everybody every American knows, do you think by any chance that should require a law? And he just laughed." - talk in 2012 by Eben Moglen Why do we think the government, almost 10 years ago, wanted a robust social graph of every citizen in the United States?