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Re:Your Face Is Not a Bar Code (2003) by amarkov on Saturday September 08, 2018 @11:04AM (#17941098)
There's always a reason for expanding government bureaucracies. Some worthy problem, which the government plausibly could solve if it had just a little bit more power to intervene.

That doesn't change the direct consequence of the intervention, that there's now yet another area where the government sits there telling everyone what to do. If we believe that government ought to be limited, at some point we have to balance against that.

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Re:Your Face Is Not a Bar Code (2003) by icebraining on Saturday September 08, 2018 @12:26PM (#17941488)
In my country, EU privacy laws applied by our National Data Protection Commission have prevented and pushed back against multiple governmental plans (cameras on the street, sensitive questions in the census, mandatory reporting of certain personal banking data, etc). Is that an increase or a decrease in the reach and size of government?
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