The title of a Consortium News commentary dated June 11, 2026, reads as follows: "A Requiem For Privacy." The following observation, immediately following that title, tells us this: "On the eve of America’s 250th anniversary, Americans are asked to accept and pay for a government that knows more about us than we do about it."
For about ten years or so, I taught a course at the University of California, Santa Cruz that was titled, "Privacy, Technology, And Freedom." I am writing this blog posting to confirm exactly what Andrew P. Napolitano is telling us in that commentary linked above.
When someone knows more about you than you do about them, the one who "knows more" has the upper hand. If Napolitano is right (and I am confirming that I believe that he is right) then "government" has the upper hand over the citizens, who are supposed to be in charge.
That this is true will not come as any surprise to those reading this blog posting. That's my bet! I think that most Americans would probably agree with Napolitano's assessment. However, I am not so sure that the citizens who will find this assessment accurate fully understand the implications of what we are being told.
We cannot, as citizens, be "in charge" of a government that knows more about us, individually and collectively, than we know about it.
Conclusion? We need to change this situation! The next two elections will provide us a chance to do that - the "midterms" scheduled for this upcoming November, and then the next general election (including picking our next president) scheduled for 2028.
If you, reading this, are a citizen of the United States of America who wants to make real what our Declaration of Independence proclaimed, 250 years ago, then let it be known that you are going to have to get together with others who feel the same way, and you are going to have to devote a considerable amount of time and effort to retaking control of the United States of America. On its current path, the "government" is on course to take totalitarian control of us!
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