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<blockquote data-quote="ez bake" data-source="post: 1571170" data-attributes="member: 229"><p>Yeah, but what if you "own several suspicious guns"? I'd say this guy is about 85% crackpot, but he's got the same legitimate concerns that a lot of other folks who were called crackpots have had - many of those concerns became a reality.</p><p></p><p>Remember when it was absurd that they would track your purchases with the grocery-store "member's card" until they actually did that to the fireman who was investigated for burning his house down because he bought some lighters with his card?</p><p></p><p>The problem with any sort of data-collection is that today's technology allows for the data to remain forever. By itself, power-consumption data isn't a lot, but it can be used to tell certain things about you that you may not want to disclose (where as older meter technology didn't provide specific times-of-the-day that you used your power). Combine that with a lot of the other things that "no one would ever use against you" and you give up a lot of specifics about your life that you once thought was private. </p><p></p><p>To those who say "I don't do anything wrong, so I don't have to worry", remember that it was not too long ago when there was a movement amongst some on capital hill that wanted to look at gun-owning, "over-patriotic" US citizens as potential domestic terrorists (and then the media produced several TV shows and news documentaries featuring Waco-style militias). Don't think for a minute that the folks who really crave your rights won't step across that line.</p><p></p><p>I'm no tinfoil hat-club member, but I continue to be astounded at the sorts of things that actually come to reality when I thought there was no way it could happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ez bake, post: 1571170, member: 229"] Yeah, but what if you "own several suspicious guns"? I'd say this guy is about 85% crackpot, but he's got the same legitimate concerns that a lot of other folks who were called crackpots have had - many of those concerns became a reality. Remember when it was absurd that they would track your purchases with the grocery-store "member's card" until they actually did that to the fireman who was investigated for burning his house down because he bought some lighters with his card? The problem with any sort of data-collection is that today's technology allows for the data to remain forever. By itself, power-consumption data isn't a lot, but it can be used to tell certain things about you that you may not want to disclose (where as older meter technology didn't provide specific times-of-the-day that you used your power). Combine that with a lot of the other things that "no one would ever use against you" and you give up a lot of specifics about your life that you once thought was private. To those who say "I don't do anything wrong, so I don't have to worry", remember that it was not too long ago when there was a movement amongst some on capital hill that wanted to look at gun-owning, "over-patriotic" US citizens as potential domestic terrorists (and then the media produced several TV shows and news documentaries featuring Waco-style militias). Don't think for a minute that the folks who really crave your rights won't step across that line. I'm no tinfoil hat-club member, but I continue to be astounded at the sorts of things that actually come to reality when I thought there was no way it could happen. [/QUOTE]
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