<i>&gt; If it wants to get you, it will abuse any information available</i><p>That&#x27;s exactly the point. Therefore helping that abuse (by either being lax with privacy, or by assuming it&#x27;s pointless) is not something that you should be doing if you care about this issue.<p><i>&gt; But let&#x27;s not delude ourselves - if the government turns evil, we&#x27;re fucked either way, and no amount of Internet privacy will help much.</i><p>It&#x27;s not an argument to ignore this. That&#x27;s the whole point of pushing for FOSS, privacy respectful technology, no DRM and so on. The more pervasive the technology is in society (and it&#x27;s surely becoming so), the higher is the potential of that abuse if said technology is prone to it. So taking care to prevent it on all levels is essential if you care about it as an individual.