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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Anonymous 0 Comments

If the government knows things about you, it will never forget them.

You may trust the current government, do you trust the government of 10 years in the future?

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