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The way you prevent the country from being run by organized crime is by spying on the governing bodies, not the private citizens (those typically don't run the country). In practice, it means we should have transparent data about the people running the country.

As a rule of thumb, good politicians tend to fight for transparency in the government and privacy for their citizens. Bad politicians push the opposite view.



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