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by adamsmith143 1068 days ago
As I mentioned do any of those outweigh the possibility that some 3 letter agency might start mass scanning US Citizens for what amounts to thought crime? The very fundamental idea of privacy would cease to exist.
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That's a very big leap. If we're at the stage where a three letter agency can put you in an fMRI machine, then we're probably also at the stage where they can beat you with a rubber hose until you confess.

My point is that there's already a wide variety of things a future draconian state can do. This doesn't seem to move the dial very much.