> a lot of people are OK with mass surveillance given a basically benign, good government
That's so crazy to me. We don't have to go back that far in history to find an FBI director who used surveillance to settle petty grudges, and we had a PRESIDENT within my lifetime [1] that abused this type of information. Even if you believe the US government is generally good, there's no way anyone should believe this stuff won't be abused by bad actors within the system.
That's so crazy to me. We don't have to go back that far in history to find an FBI director who used surveillance to settle petty grudges, and we had a PRESIDENT within my lifetime [1] that abused this type of information. Even if you believe the US government is generally good, there's no way anyone should believe this stuff won't be abused by bad actors within the system.
[1] Granted I was 1 year old when Nixon resigned.