Comment Re:Holy Crap, What A Bunch Of Pessimists (Score 1) 393
It is a complex problem. As we now have very large populations, some of which have technology in the hands of citizens, and are more sophisticated, the need to know becomes more vital. It is like living in a high rise apartment. You need to know a bit about people in the building for everyone's sake. So governments as well as companies and individuals find more and more innocent reasons to study us and much of it is to our benefit. That leaves people with bad intentions a way to do harm. So far the good outweighs the bad. But for how long?