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It feels like a reinvention of Pascal's wager to guarantee we don't sign up: a) if I'm worried then I want to sign up but not hand over my details b) if I'm n

• DanBC 12y ago
  But this makes it more important that regular people ask about their details. It sends the message that it's not just people with paranoia and terrorists that don't want a pervasive surveillance society, and that it's a normal everyday desire to not have your government spying on you. GCHQ will always want to slurp more data; they will rarely err on the side of less data. I used to be relaxed about central government spying, and less relaxed about local authorities using surveillance to check bins or school catchment areas, and less relaxed still about US companies ignoring the concepts of privacy. The failure of "them" to protect us from known radicals has made me a bit less relaxed about government spying.