There's a difference between hiding something, and controlling who you share private information with.
When discussing how governments spy on their citizens, we agree that keeping your information to yourself is a non-existing reality for most. Gov know a lot about us. Information is being collected consecutively.
But why should they keep our information centrally? Most of us are not criminal. We are born with the right to control who we share personal information with.
I don't support centralization of personal information because I believe gov is misusing it.
Edward Snowden uncovered PRISM.
The gov in China has a social credit system.
The PNR system in Europe.
Russia's Yarovaya Law.
There's proof.
So... I'm not hiding. I am restricting, because that's my right.
"But I have nothing to hide, I don't care the government knows everything about me".
That's also your right.
I can simultaneously exercise my right to keep my personal information privately, and also have nothing to hide.
It's data I produce. I get to decide what to do with it.
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Gov justifies collecting our realtime location, our internet use, our payment information, how we interact online, who we talk to, what you say to your friends and family...
"To stop terrorists, of course."
And how's that going?
Did it help them to have my information to stop the terrorists?
No. There are still terrorists.
It seems fitting to discuss the irony of naming oneself a "fighter of terrorists", while illegally collecting and misusing personal data to benefit a political agenda.
It seems equally fitting to discuss the danger of someone doing just that, and calling themselves democrats.
There's nothing useful for them to do with my personal information. So why should they have it?
I think they shouldn't.
That's all.
