A while ago, I've read a thought provoking article about operation whose name I can not recall, mindblow or similar. It goes something like this. In case of civil unrest, U.S. government deliberately "leaks" huge amount of personal data of U.S. and non-U.S. citizens gathered through data mining, similar to wikileaks. In a split second, everything about you and everybody else is in public domain, indexed and searchable by whomever is interested. As a result, partnerships fail, divorces get tidal proportions, friendships sour, businesses go bankrupt and distrust becomes universal. Society as we know it is dead. Everybody is either smeared (deliberate errors in data mining) or publicly embarrassed.
This snooping could easily be part of such project.
How to handle it? Don't lie and don't tell the truth. Be creative.
Oh NO!
Tell the TRUTH; but scratch out YOUR name and write in Lazamataz!
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I would't be surprised if the scenario you mentioned was in our future.