>it's for the safety of the established bureaucracy of government. Seems vague. What exactly does this assertion mean? Are you saying that they are collecting

>it's for the safety of the established bureaucracy of government. Seems vague. What exactly does this assertion mean? Are you saying that they are collecting this information to blackmail people or something similar? Because I don't see people being defenestrated or otherwise prosecuted for threatening the "bureaucracy". On the contrary, there seems to be an all-out public assault on our government from some quarters. And who, exactly, is the "established bureaucracy" anyway?