[forgetfreeman]

The irony of individuals freaking out over the notion of what the wildly underfunded and largely indifferent federal government might do to collect data when private industry is surveilling basically every aspect of their existence for most of every day...

[brokenmachine]

Private industry can't directly send someone to prison.

[LtWorf]

Soon: "our AI predicts that individual X has a 90% chance of committing a violent crime within the next semester"

[lupire]

Private industry sells your data to the government to do that.

[mlrtime]

"wildly underfunded"? Do you really believe what you just wrote here?

What private industry surveillance is mandatory? FFS.

[throw10920]

User "forgetfreeman" has not actually looked up the budget of the US government.