Reply to post: Re: Ignore the man behind the curtain, ignore the curtain.

US govt says it has cracked killer's iPhone, legs it from Apple fight

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Re: Ignore the man behind the curtain, ignore the curtain.

We've already dealt with the "you've got nothing to hide, therefore you've got nothing to fear" argument here; and your post just seems to be a verbose rephrasing of that argument.

I personally think that even the IDEA of the government tracking EVERYTHING innocent people do has a chilling effect that is hard to reconcile with a functioning democracy. And there's a personal aspect too --- I'm not happy with the idea some underpaid doughnut-dwelling douchebag is wanking over my daughter's sexts with her boyfriend, even if they don't ever stalk, blackmail or affect her life in the future.

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