Almost all my comments are rejected by the Register unless totally innocuous unlike foul-penned and
less knowledgeable comments. Here then all I'll bother to say, rather than waste more of my time or anyone else's is that it is not the completely responsible gathering of information from us used solely to overcome a crisis and in no way used to label us that I think most object-to. It is the factually undeniable situation that there is an organism which controls the direction of all our governments in achieving profit financially and politically.
Unfortunately these information gatherers have now moved into internet scouring, "social media" and increasing from the traditional blundering but almost amiable intelligence boffins into motley collection of 'secret-service' radicals who's pathology is worthy of anxiety. In the interests of the "multiculturalism"...such a sweet sounding name... chapter of globalisation, jihadist believers are not only NOT rejected as immigrants but positively welcomed and some infiltrate communities and mosques (as did Christians against them) with raging anger and promotion of violence against what another set of terrorists call "goyim' Their insults against christians, some well deserved and some infamous are tolerated by the host nations whilst they are themselves intolerant of insults towards their own version of the most shallow understanding of Yeshua.
The problem essentially is in comparatively small groups of communities being given the power to act on behalf of 'faceless men' whilst purporting, even believing they act to show us the 'way' ...'moving forward' to use today's fashion-apeak. It is the realisation that, they, even our own government bodies are no longer OUR friends but act to protect something not quite visible though many know what it is and are silenced....which drives the resistance to the spying on us using numerous techniques and 'modern developments' and that any of us can disappear during day or night through our own 'security forces' to never be seen again or to turn up as a shadow some time hence.
What we do not trust any more is that we cannot trust almost anyone...which the new order has a delight in achieving. The mendacious, slippery and doctrinaire adherents to a totalitarian envisioned globalised, new world order cannot be trusted to have a single vision towards peace on earth and we must take the right as OURS to protest loudly and freely, un-harassed, unlisted, un-recorded and maturely.
Whilst we do so we should do, and openly and vocally acknowledging any benefits we have gained through these intrusions on our privacy. ...but one should not have to be 'either-or' as most commentators seem to suggest. The concept that the State (undefined) is greater than the people is much lauded but intrinsically unsound and a machination. The government should finally be forced by us to understand it is a group elected to be paid to be our advocates, not the latest in a series of advocates for alien forces and ideals and connivance.Voila