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Why can I not be pissed off at my government abusing my data? We should also be pissed off at the insanely wasteful spending that the federal government does as well.



You can resent paying tax, and argue that you should pay less tax or that your tax money should be spent more effectively. But arguing that the government has no right to extract taxation is...fringe, let's say.

In the same way, arguing that the government has absolutely no right to information you would prefer to keep private is not compelling. Better to demand limitations on what data can collect and what it can do with that data.




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