The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy. Unknown The Privacy Act, if enforced would be a pretty good thing. But the government doesn't like it. Government has an insatiable appetite for power, and it will not stop usurping power unless it is restrained by laws they cannot repeal or nullify. There are mighty few laws they cannot nullify.
Privacy is the penumbra of the Bill of Rights.
Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury Rights that depend on the sufferance of the State are of uncertain tenure.