Quote from: ArticMine on July 23, 2016, 10:59:36 PM

I do not consider governments to be the real, or even a significant, threat here. My biggest concern is spying by corporations for marketing / advertising / etc. purposes or to enforce 19th century copyright business models (DRM). Government agencies, however, do piggyback in many cases of the existing corporate surveillance, so cutting the large multinational corporations off from the data they greedily crave does have the added benefit of reducing the much lower risk of government surveillance.

A open blockchain makes individuals very vulnerable to spying by corporations.

Then you have lost the battle before you even started.
Because you don't know who your real enemy is.
Governments can imprison you & seize your assets or even take your life and call it legal.
Corporations or any very rich individual may sue you or paid to have you killed, but this only happens because the corrupt government takes pay offs for a blind eye and will not punish them with the same force as the poor.

Cool

FYI:
While I do agree Corporate entities have too much power,
Changing the laws to weaken them, where they have no rights to sue anyone , and their CEOs & Upper Management face the full consequences for a corporation actions, would get them in line with the Public welfare very quickly, if our Governments would enforce it.