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You don't have a symmetrical relationship with the government. Do you ask the IRS every year "can you please send me 25% of all the money you collected this yea
by dmurray 6y ago
You don't have a symmetrical relationship with the government. Do you ask the IRS every year "can you please send me 25% of all the money you collected this year? If not, why ask me to give up mine?"
I'm in favour of strong privacy protections, but this argument isn't one I find convincing.
- Renaud 6y agoThe trick is maybe not to expect it from the government but from those who work in it. Everyone has something that can be used against them. If not legally, at least as leverage, blackmail or just to impersonate or humiliate. Enough to destroy someone's reputation, livelihood, family, life.
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- Dirlewanger 6y agoWhy can I not be pissed off at my government abusing my data? We should also be pissed off at the insanely wasteful spending that the federal government does as well.
- dmurray 6y agoYou can resent paying tax, and argue that you should pay less tax or that your tax money should be spent more effectively. But arguing that the government has no right to extract taxation is...fringe, let's say. In the same way, arguing that the government has absolutely no right to information you would prefer to keep private is not compelling. Better to demand limitations on what data can collect and what it can do with that data.