I understand people will go far lengths to protect their privacy but with the internet once you have a email they probably have a good idea about you already, and unless you are doing something with malicious intent the government probably (hopefully) doesn’t really care, so why is it such a huge thing?
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It’s like you’re at your friend’s house and your friend owns a firearm. No big deal, right? Your friend is cool and you generally get along with him, so you’re not worried about being in his house knowing that there’s a gun somewhere in the house.
But one day while you’re hanging out with your friend, he says he wants to keep the gun on the table in the room with you while you hang out. Kinda strange, but no big deal I guess. You let him keep it there.
But sometime later when you’re hanging out, he says he wants to just hold the gun while you guys hang out. Again, kinda weird, but your friend swears the gun is unloaded anyway, so you let him because it’s his house so you say ok.
And then one day, you find out that when you’re hanging out with your friend and he’s always holding his gun, that it’s actually been loaded for quite some time, he just never told you. “But bro, it’s not like I’d ever point the gun at you or out my finger on the trigger”. And you just accept that he’s right and even though it makes you a little uncomfortable, you just accept it because you know it won’t go any further than that.
But then one day, your friend says that, just for scientific purposes, he wants to be able to point his loaded gun at you any time you guys are hanging out. “But bro, you’re my bro and I love you, so like, you know you’re not at any risk, even if I’m pointing a loaded gun at you the whole time. Why would I ever put you in harm’s way?” And then to solidify your trust in him, he reminds you that he can hold the gun just fine without putting his finger on the trigger, so you can trust that he’ll never tell you that he wants to put his finger on the trigger while pointing his loaded gun at you.
At what point do you start wondering why your friend is constantly pushing the boundaries on a risky situation? At what point do you start to recognize that it might be only a few weeks before your friend tells you that holding the gun is a little more comfortable if he can rest his trigger finger on the trigger of the loaded gun that he is pointing at you? At what point do you start to question your friend’s motives and intentions? Even if he has no I’ll intentions, what’s the point of pointing yourself in a position where a simple accident could occur by your friend sneezing and accidentally pulling the trigger while pointing a loaded gun at you?
That’s the problem with the govt collecting information and increasing surveillance. Each time, they swear they’re not up to anything, but each time they change a policy or start utilizing new technology, they move one step closer to a very precarious position, one which seems unnecessary to begin with and which makes you question their intentions more and more each time.
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