Eli5 why is the government collecting metadata or online information in general a terrible thing?

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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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The degree of manipulation they have over the collective from data mining is more than concerning, it’s criminal. Combine it with A.I. and it will be a weapon that could enslave. With all the cooky apocalypse theories out there…this one is actually on the table

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