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My automatic Godwin's Law Filter allowed me to scan right past that argument.

• swombat 15y ago
  Government and other nation-wide institutions are one of the few things that should be designed with the worst case scenario in mind, because history has shown with admirable consistency that this worst case comes up again, and again, and again. If you don't want "the next Hitler" you need your political system to be designed to avoid allowing "him" to happen. Communism largely failed as a system because it consistently brought out the worst dictators in each country and put them on top. Having all this data in one place has no historical precedent. It is only smart to at least consider the worst case, given the potential damage. If you don't like the Hitler analogy, then consider something close to home: What would the Taliban have done with all this data on their people? The answer seems pretty obvious.