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People will willfully and joyfully will vote for a would-be dictator, so I don’t privacy is really the main thing that brings us on a really dark path. There are far bigger fish to fry to protecting our basic rights and values.

The balance between privacy and the authority is just that. We outsourced the rule of law to the state in order to have a fair and just society. Ipso facto the government should be fair and just to have the right to invade some amount of privacy in order to keep a society free, fair and just.

That’s why the judicial branch exist: to see if what the government (or anyone) did was playing by the rules.

Which brings us back to politics being a danger to a society if people vote in unjust or unfair people.