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Privacy today faces growing threats from a growing surveillance apparatus that exists in the name of security.For instance,government argue sometimes that it is necessary to invade the privacy right of a citizen in order to prevent a much greater crime.
That is correct, and unfortunately I have talked to people who do not even care if they are being spied on or not. Their mindset is that: if they do nothing illegal, then they should not be afraid of surveillance.
I personally do not share that way of thinking, because law can change and freedom can be stripped away while we still accept surveillance as some normal element of the modern world.
At first, the data collection by the companies was about profiting off the targeted advertisement, but I am afraid it has become something more sinister which leans onto the Chinese model of authoritarianism.