3 ms·

I meant the authorities and those in power - and I would even argue that regular people might. You see it mostly not in what they say they want, but in what th

I meant the authorities and those in power - and I would even argue that regular people might. You see it mostly not in what they say they want, but in what they say they don't want. As people constantly cry out, wondering why the government didn't get access to [priviledged information] or why Apple didn't hand over the information for those terrorists, then the media and the populus will often ask why not and want laws changed so that they can. Very few people are really willing to say "privacy is more important, and I will tolerate murderers and terrorists getting away with bad things because my rights are more important"

ci5er 6y ago
You are right. I tend to not like to lose lives on American soil or American lives overseas, but the cost of "Big Brother" while unquantifiable can be guestimated by the abuses of the CI and Federal LEO communities to date (which I also don't know how to quantify). It makes me uncomfortable having to make calculations on sparse data, but my bias is to believe that the Feds don't need more data, because they (and the IRS) already don't deal with the data they have responsibly.