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No that’s not a good answer. It’s a vague gesture at some non realistic threat. When will I care?

• kelnos 3y ago
  You'll care when the political winds shift in your country and your leaders don't like people of your race, religion, or sexual orientation, or perhaps one of your leisure activities, like the kinds of books you read or email newsletters you subscribe to. Meanwhile, there's all this data floating around that "proves" you the kind of person they don't like. And everyone seems to think this could never happen to them, until it does. Even if you are squeaky clean, the data on you could have errors, and your government -- with the best of intentions, even -- could misinterpret the data in ways that could cause you a lot of trouble. This isn't even a "what if?" type scenario; this sort of thing already happens to people. Edit: your top-level comment got flagged and killed, but I vouched it back to life. I completely disagree with your views here, but I think it's valuable and important that we talk about things like this.
• NoRelToEmber 3y ago
  When you run for office and realize the party in power knows literally everything about you, and is using it to find dirt on you (and they're free to take all they find out of context), and target you for legal investigations, play six degrees of Kevin Bacon to link you to child molesters, and countless other dirty tricky you didn't even know existed, while you and your upstart new party know next to nothing about your opponents in power. But who needs more than one or two parties?