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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It is an invasion pf privacy, basically. It is one thing to agree to a company collecting data in order to use their service. It is totally different for a government to covertly collect data on its’ citizens. Why are they collecting the data, what are they using that data for, who gave them permission to collect and who is overseeing what happens with that data?

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