Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on March 04, 2012, 11:04:15 PM

Sorry OP. You lost me.

As a US citizen who needs to supply birth certificate, passport, criminal background check, etc just to get certain types of visas, green card or dual citizenship in South Korea, the idea of providing my personal information to another country in exchange for a privilege of a service or access to something is far from foreign.

I scan my retinas, my fingerprints, and my face everytime I leave this country and everytime I get into another. There is a method to the madness. For people who are busy creating, it's seen as a discomfort and inconvenience, nothing more.

As a citizen of an European country I guess I am somewhat "spoiled" in that regard. But even I have heard enough of the TSA controversy... as an example. They don't exactly honor your rights with that....

But this is bitcoin, part of it is about rights, privacy and it is systematically opposed to centralized control.
I smell a little hypocrisy in your argument.

Quote from: marked on March 04, 2012, 10:56:57 PM

and what makes you think the Chinese/Russian/US intelligence don't already have that information.

If they do they got it without my cooperation. That's my point.