The Democratic National Committee's data company has repeatedly failed to keep each candidate's data secret from other candidates. One Sanders staffer accessed some of Clinton's data, and the campaign fired him for this.

The DNC took the excuse to deny the Sanders campaign all access to its own voter information data base.

The Sanders campaign has sued the DNC for this.

Santa Claus Confirms NSA Attack on Naughty-Or-Nice Database.

We now know how broad and sweeping the PAT-RIOT Act "national security letters" are; and functionaries can demand them arbitrarily.

The FBI demands a credit card number to register a drone, as well as other personal information.

This puts the drone owners at risk.

Thugs will collect photos in real time of everyone riding in cars in London.

When the state knows where everyone goes, and who talks with whom, democracy cannot survive. That doesn't bother the UK government, which is applying Republican-style techniques to effectively eliminate democracy in the UK.