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Even if one happens to approve of the conditions under which personal data is being managed _right now_, even if one happens to approve of the current administr

• salt-thrower 4y ago
  I think the argument is that it's already out there. Companies, with no directive to even pretend to serve the public interest, already have all that data. The government does too, because security agencies mandate that they get backdoor access. "Once it's out there, it's out there forever" - that already happened. Given that it's already out there, there's not much more to fear in terms of a slippery slope. All that's left is to at least force the public sector to disclose more of what's going on and regulate how private interests are allowed to use it. Otherwise, we already have the dystopia you're imagining, we just don't see it as well.
• jltsiren 4y ago
  That's why this is a matter of trust. Either you trust the government and allow it to collect the data, or you don't trust the government and don't allow anyone to collect it. The government has the monopoly on violence. It always has access to the data held by private parties. The government and the people serving it may choose to respect laws and other promises. They may choose to avoid accessing private data without a valid reason. But if the government chooses otherwise and requires private businesses to hand over their data, the businesses will most likely comply. If you don't want to give a government-turned-bad access to some data, that data must not be allowed to exist in the first place.