“One effect of undermining privacy is to suppress free speech. It makes the person afraid or reluctant to speak for fear that at some undetermined future time , his actions or statements will be used against him. They can be misconstrued. They can be taken out of context. He can be forced to defend himself, and that’s costly. He may be subject to a police inquiry or invasion whereby his belongings are seized and his whole life disrupted. The State’s powers turned against a person in this way are enormous. Privacy is one of those socially-useful and socially-necessary things that we take for granted when it’s there.”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/128147.html
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