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> There is no reason to believe your phone that tracks everything about you will not be used by people in government without accountability as leverage against you personally.

I have one small revision: There is no reason to believe your phone that tracks everything about you will not be used by people without accountability as leverage against you personally.




> people without accountability

The difference is that the government is, in some sense, unaccountable by fiat. At least with private actors we can have the possibility of accountability through legal recourse.




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