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Now governments are going to use drones to follow cell phone users. Its part of the Canadian government's 'Get to know you campaign.'.

On the one hand its threatening and the first step in permanently ridding the globe of actual democracy. On the other hand, it is also annoying. Always presume that the government has a dossier on you. A decade ago you would have been called paranoid crazy. No more.

So here it is. Canadians are paying good tax dollars to secretive government data collectors. Accumulating data for no good purpose. At best it might be a fanatical need to collect data on everything, and everybody. At worst this is the prelude to the assumption of the fanatical Canadian Conservatives to twist democracy to sate their megalomaniacal desires.  Okay, that should be known as a point. Its your money. Used to watch you.

 The point

 Okay concede that the government knows more about you than you do, or can recall. You are paying for this. There should be an upside at least in one facet. Tell me why, every time I make out a goddamned government form, these bastards still insist that I fill out all the name, address, sex, information in those stupid boxes at the top of the front page of those forms?

 Really we should give a name and simply ask, Ya whatta you know?