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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Who knows what today is deemed legal that tomorrow is illegal

Look at china and its highly policed good citizen point system overseen by blanket cctv coverage and tracking via GPS.

And don’t think the west isn’t:

– feeding that beast

– observing and learning

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