You're getting downvoted because you get it wrong. The problem isn't individual tracking of criminals/spies. This is not about fear of individual tracking, if "

You're getting downvoted because you get it wrong. The problem isn't individual tracking of criminals/spies. This is not about fear of individual tracking, if "they" want to do that they could just as well post a stake-out van in front of your house. If and when data is collected it is used most often to analyze groups of people, not individuals And that's exactly the problem with the mass surveillance industry. The more advanced the technology becomes, the easier it will be to track everyone "individually" (recent examples CarrierIQ, malls tracking phones). It also lowers the threshold to invading individuals privacy. Also, Assange is concerned with companies that sell this equipment to foreign governments with a dismal human rights record. In those countries, a wrong word in a message can cost your life. Mass surveillance makes it possible to easily pick out potential "enemies of the state".