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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>unless you are doing something with malicious intent the government probably (hopefully) doesn’t really care, so why is it such a huge thing?
They may not care today, but who knows if they will care tomorrow.
Famously, during the 1970s, Nixon knew that he couldn’t make protesting the Vietnam War illegal. Instead, he criminalized marijuana so that he could target the hippies – who were against the war – for drug use rather than for their political views. Same effect, but perfectly legal.
If the government one day decides that you are a problem, they can look at the types of things that you do and either find crimes you didn’t even realize you committed or, absent that, make things you do normally illegal. With effectively perfect knowledge and limitless resources, you could easily be targeted and silenced.
The government having that kind of power should scare everyone.
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