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In a world without digital privacy, even if you have done nothing wrong other than think differently, you begin to censor yourself.  Not entirely at first.  Just a little, bit by bit.  To risk less, to hope less, to imagine less, to dare less, to create less, to talk less, to think less.  The chilling effect of digital surveillance is profound and it touches everything.  What a small, unimaginative world we would end up with.  Not entirely at first.  Just bit by bit.

-Tim Cook, from his 2019 speech at Stanford