[forgotAgain]

What is the parent post genuinely concerned about?

For myself, nothing. I have to say I lead a rather mundane life.

My objection is not for myself, it's for others. I don't want reporters tracked. I don't want whistleblowers tracked. I don't want government employees to feel threatened they may lose their jobs because they have a private life. For those people to be safe we all have to be protected from government tracking.

[alexqgb]

Sorry, accidental downvote. I meant to upvote since you nailed it: I want privacy norms to be respected not because I have anything in particular to hide, but because I want people who can advance my general interests as a citizen to be able to do so safely.

I am acutely aware that doing so demands adversarial relationships with powers that can be concentrated, lawless, and malign. The risks faced by people challenging them are real. They deserve all the protection they can get.

Put simply, we're all in this together.

[diminoten]

This isn't an argument against privacy, this is an argument against absolute privacy.

You're not private all the time. Stop pretending like you are, it just doesn't mesh with reality. I can fucking see you walk into that night club, you did that in full view of the whole world.

[toomuchtodo]

Yet, here we are, without a system in place where that data can be queried in seconds in a programatic way, stored perpetually.

As it should be.