Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state
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Imagine, just for a moment, that the Government wanted to keep a record of everyone's sexuality. They need to know this detailed demographic data because it will be highly useful in civic planning. It will help them work out what provision needs to be made for sexual health services, how many children are likely to be born, how many schools to build, etc.
You trust the Government, you voted for them, you and your friends have nothing to hide with regards to your sexuality.
But! Shock horror! After creating the database, the Government loses the election and the homophobes at UKIP get in to power!
Now they have a database of every gay in the village, and can harass then, try to "cure" them, or make their lives a living hell.
Far fetched? Not really. With Cameron's inane web filtering plan, the "black boxes" in ISPs which can record every click you make, and the selling of the your NHS details to private parties, we're in a situation where a malicious government could cause serious damage to us.