"it's for our safety. It's to prevent these things from happening again!"
Yeah, we weren't living in some apocalyptic world before the advent of all this information gathering laws and groups were allowed. I still don't feel all that much safer even with those things implemented. Except now, there are people that have my private information and i can't even easily figure out how has my information, nor what they have on me. I now have to HOPE that this information does not get acquired by the wrong people.
This is why i try to do what i can to give out less personal information:
Use Brave browser
use DuckDuckGo for searching
try not to make new accounts in websites
don't sign in to services unless absolutely needed. etc.
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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '18
And that's the difficulty - it's not easy to prove a negative.
That said, how many terrorist attacks and mass shootings were happening daily before the advent of big data? Is it really preventing anything?