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Re:MI5, MI6, and GCHQ chiefs public hearing live on the BBC by fit2rule on Thursday November 07, 2013 @10:23AM (#6689776)
If you think that having a wide open window into the industrialized world, such that GCHQ and NSA have, and don't use that for capitalist, industrialist purposes, then you are a fool.

Its not about having anything to hide. Its about whether or not others can use your work against you. This happens far more often than real terrorism, and it ruins lives, industry, and culture when it happens.

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Re:MI5, MI6, and GCHQ chiefs public hearing live on the BBC by Zikes on Thursday November 07, 2013 @10:31AM (#6689845)
Exactly, and on top of that most people actually do have something to hide, whether they realize it or not.[1]

Even setting aside crimes, there's plenty of things that happen in peoples' day-to-day lives that the government has absolutely no business even being aware of. It's not hard to imagine that they could collect vast troves of information on a person and then that information can get misused in any number of ways by rogue employees or by the government itself.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/...

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