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I believe that a lack of privacy will eventually lead to a totalitarian state, doesn't matter whether that state will be run by a private, totalitarian corporation or a totalitarian government
It really depends on how they use the data that they are given. They could use this to create a totalitarian government. But how look around you, it seems like we are coming close to that with all the censorship online surrounding any covid related information. I know of this one person who uploaded a video discussing his thoughts surrounding it and got a strike on his channel that has 26k subs and the video deleted and a message from youtube that if he talks about covid again he will be banned from youtube. That is just one example and I'm sure there are thousands more like it.