Comment by energy123

The main reason to value privacy and data protection is that a liberal government cannot be guaranteed to survive.

No liberal can guarantee that they won't be replaced with a genocidal authoritarian, so systems need to be designed with that possibility in mind.

Something as "innocent" as a census can be weaponized by a future authoritarian government.

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/rearvision/the-dark-s...