(21.4.2016) Information is power. Imagine if agents of the State didn’t know where you live. How could it collect property taxes, arrest you, conscript you or your children, or record phone calls? Imagine if the State did not know your finances. How could it snatch your money, garnish your wages, freeze accounts, or confiscate gold? Total information is total power. That‘s why the surveillance state views privacy itself as an indication of crime—not as one of violence, but as a crime against the State.