I wish I could live in a world where I can sustain the fantasy that power will not be abused whenever the abuser can get away with it. The power is asymmetric.

I wish I could live in a world where I can sustain the fantasy that power will not be abused whenever the abuser can get away with it. The power is asymmetric. The NSA, CIA, FBI, Apple, Google, Police have a lot of power so they need to be very, very transparent in its use and oversight. You do not have that power, privacy is the only thing you can have to protect yourself from abuse. The other point about about not having to worry about it as an individual is equally wrong. The equivalent argument is that you aren't a doctor so you don't need to worry about a purge of all doctors if one were proposed. Whereas obviously you do need to worry if anyone you care about ever gets sick. So it goes with standing up to corruption. Even if _you_ never stand up to it, your life is greatly adversely affected the harder that is for genuine heroes who make the sacrifice to do it because its the right thing. "If you have nothing to hide you have been conned."