WOW !!! - This Political Cartoon From 20 Years Ago Was Disturbingly Prescient - Tom Tomorrow

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5. You'd be truly frightened if you knew what they knew

When I worked in court records, part of my job was entering criminal charges into the record and occasionally running various background checks on people involved on the case (it was family court, so there were often questions about parents of criminals and parents of child abuse victims).

Before being given access to the FBI database, the Feds came out, fingerprinted me, and let me run myself through their database.

Now, granted, some people came up with nothing. Me, on the other hand? They knew everything. Everywhere I'd ever lived, bank and credit card information, even hotels I'd stayed at.

Privacy is a total illusion. You're right though, that with 7 billion people to monitor, it's highly unlikely that our lack of privacy actually means anything.