www/philosophy surveillance-vs-democracy.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       21/08/22 09:46:51

Modified files:
        philosophy     : surveillance-vs-democracy.html 

Log message:
        Add paragraph about how governments can become repressive even if they
        are not.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.80&r2=1.81

Patches:
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@@ -178,6 +178,19 @@
 people for having used it.)
 </p>
 
+<p>You may feel your government won't use your personal data for
+repression, but you can't rely on that feeling, because governments do
+change.  As of 2021, many ostensibly democratic states
+are <a 
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/21/beware-state-surveillance-of-your-lives-governments-can-change-afghanistan";>ruled
+by people with authoritarian leanings</a>, and the Taliban have taken
+over Afghanistan's systems of biometric identification that were set
+up at the instigation of the US.  The UK working on a law
+to <a 
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/09/police-bill-not-law-order-state-control-erosion-freedom";>repress
+nonviolent protests that might be described as causing &ldquo;serious
+disruption.&rdquo;</a>  The US could become permanently repressive in
+2025, for all we know.
+</p>
+
 <p>Personal data collected by the state is also likely to be obtained
 by outside crackers that break the security of the servers, even
 by <a 
href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150612/16334231330/second-opm-hack-revealed-even-worse-than-first.shtml";>crackers
@@ -629,7 +642,7 @@
 
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