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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, please.  The private sector surveils average Americans far more than the government does.  They know your most intimate personal habits and information - where you live, where you work, your shopping habits, your medical issues, what size clothes you wear, what your vices are, your sexual orientation and habits, the places you go, who your friends and family are, what organizations you are involved in, et cetera et cetera et cetera....

That kind of blows away the whole "privacy" issue.[/quote]

No you fucking idiot. The difference is that private business can't fucking incarcerate you like the government can.

Amazing. Just amazing.[/quote]

They can't incarcerate you but they can and do routinely destroy people's lives by using the private information they've gathered for trashing peoples' credit history, jacking up their rates, denying them service, forcing them into bankruptcy and a whole host of other things as well as by letting the private and personal information they've gathered on you get harvested by hackers who in turn use it for identity theft and other crimes.  AND...  the average American is FAR more likely to have one of those things happen to him than ending up behind bars because of government surveillance.  Far more, by MANY ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE.

If you think private business is perfectly harmless then you are the fucking idiot.[/quote]

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