I respond to that with something that Richard Stallman said in one of his
great lectures.
"The threat of non-democratic government is far more dangerous than any of
the threats that they /claim/ to be trying to protect us from, with the
surveillance."
--- (10m18s) http://vimeo.com/28195912
To give such an immense surveillance capability to corporations and
governments is an *immense* risk that you're taking...
Imagine that those same corporations and governments are (behind the scenes)
dangerous criminal organizations... Would you want the world's most powerful
and dangerous criminal organizations to know were you are, all the time?
(Concerning the West... What I've said, is no mere hypotheses. It's something
that I know for a fact to be true, after investigating such organizations -
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2008/050108_elitist_blueprint.htm)
Imagine also, that (as it happened, several times, before, in the West) the
democracies you have turn into dictatorships... How would you, then, prevent
the newly-installed dictators from accessing your personal data?
(What I've said, is also something that I know, for a fact, that is in the
plans of some of the world's governments and corporations -
http://www.prisonplanet.com/financial-times-editorial-admits-agenda-for-dictatorial-world-government.html)
If it was something that a person would *choose* to, and something that would
*only* be used by emergency services, that would be one thing... But, as we
all know, that's not the case for any of these two factors...
And, with the kind of society that we have, nowadays... Even if that was the
agreement... As closed to the public as corporations and governments are, how
would you know if they were telling you the truth?
(Don't the Snowden revelations prove that the "privacy agreements" that
people have with corporations are just a joke?)
