Since the population can never be sure of where its governement is leading, whereas it could be an idillic utopia or a dictatorship or everything in between, it is reasonable to avoid that its government gets hold of dangerous instruments of power, expecially if the benefits are not clear.
Exactly. The whole purpose of a (true) democracy is that the government does NOT control the population, rather the population controls the government. This system becomes impossible when such powerful, controlling tools are slowly allowed to be introduced by those in power. UK 'Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails
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