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The motivation here is security through obscurity, right?

• graycat 13y ago
  Partly it's security theater.
  • untog 13y ago
    I don't think it's arguable that collecting every piece of data on every citizen could be a benefit to national security. It's just the associated cost to privacy that makes it utterly horrendous.
    • graycat 13y ago
      Maybe Stalin, Hitler, Himmler, J. E. Hoover, the Stasi, etc. would all agree that having all the data would help them build a surveillance state they would like. Still, no matter who does/doesn't not like having all that data collected, for the Federal Government to be able to demand that data strikes me as a gross violation of the Fourth Amendment. Legal cases are being brought; maybe a case will make it to the SCOTUS; and maybe the SCOTUS will strike down as unconstitutional the laws that enabled such data collection. I can't find anywhere in the Constitution how nice would be to have a Stasi surveillance state and have to conclude that the US founding fathers did not desire such a thing. Anytime a clear majority of active voters want to have this situation turned around, around it will come, quickly.
• shmerl 13y ago
  No. Motivation is simple as before - thirst for power.