Originally Posted by alex0683de
I usually take a pretty liberal stance when it comes to governments checking what their citizens are doing, but in this case, I fail to see the harm or the impact on privacy, since there's no storage of data.
The issue is incrementalism and facilitation of government legal authority to tighten the noose around privacy.
There is also offshore storage and processing of data -- including of data stolen by agents of the US government offshore -- to get around US laws and the laws of several other countries. The matching of ID and data being stored/processed may not be from the same source, but they are often married and at least occasionally used by US authorities. Certainly erodes privacy too, or does worse.