Given humans have a strong tendency to look out for their own self interest, it comes down to, do you trust the government more than private enterprise?
I don't know why people put so much faith in governments when they have repeatedly shown their lack of trustworthiness.
It is certainly true business also has a long history of violating customers' trust. Remember Google and their "do no evil" motto? Meanwhile, it turns out they are on a data collection frenzy to be used for their own purposes. And Facebook -- don't use it for other than the most minimal purposes. Don't trust them at all.
But remove the profit motive as is the case with government and I think the potential for abuse is far greater.
It's more a matter of balancing the lesser of the two evils.
I don't know why people put so much faith in governments when they have repeatedly shown their lack of trustworthiness.
It is certainly true business also has a long history of violating customers' trust. Remember Google and their "do no evil" motto? Meanwhile, it turns out they are on a data collection frenzy to be used for their own purposes. And Facebook -- don't use it for other than the most minimal purposes. Don't trust them at all.
But remove the profit motive as is the case with government and I think the potential for abuse is far greater.
It's more a matter of balancing the lesser of the two evils.
