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"Unless of course you're a criminal, in which case you can handily avoid a lot of this!" Actually it's even more serious. If you try to avoid it it's a crimina

• onion2k 12y ago
  To be very honest I'd rather move to a remote place getting away of this evolution. Honest question: What's stopping you? A huge number of people say they'd readily give up life in a nation that infringes their privacy for a different life away from prying eyes, but very, very few people actually bother to do it. There are plenty of nations where surveillance is still at the 'none' level, beyond a few paper records for things like passports and car registration. And generally they're quite cheap to live in and have nice weather. So why are you still living in the apparently awful conditions where you are now? Could it be that privacy is actually much less important to you than ready access to, say, a good internet connection?