Wolfgang wrote: "What an utterly stupid blunder by the US government, BTW."

This would tie in with another topic, that with the kind of government we have the danger is not that the government will collect citizens information and have each and everyone under its thumb, but rather that the government will amass citizens informatioin and it will be easily nicked and sold off to the highest bidders, who will use it for ripping off all and sundry, and fixing insurance rates.

Still dangerous, but a more actual danger, and probably happening right now.