Originally Posted by
catocony
With the corollary " I'm innocent and have nothing to hide".
There are fools who say this.
But just as dangerous are the cowards who say, "If YOU are innocent, then YOU should have nothing to hide." Many such cowards get prickly when their own privacy is violated, yet demand that the privacy of others be violated wholesale.
Originally Posted by
Loren Pechtel
The government misuses data they have access to.
Also, water is wet.
I'm every bit as afraid of government incompetence with their hoarded data as I am with government misuse. How many laptops filled with personal info have been lost by government employees leaving them on tables in Starbucks or getting them stolen from cars over the years (in direct violation of multiple government rules regarding information and operational security)?