If only some group of people had been warning about the risks of massive government data collection, loudly, for decades and decades

imagine then getting freaked out when the government, which holds all that data in thousands of isolated silos just decides to...be efficient. talk to other parts of government. coalesce and aggregate its data.

imagine your entire defense for doing nothing about this is that you just assumed the government would never get its shit together and use the data you let it collect