Its not about privacy. The problem is that it doesn't really work, that the police have Noone to look over their shoulders and the repercussions for wrongfully identified people.
And what i always ask is: do you trust your future government with such a potent weapon? A weapon that can identify every enemy of the state, even if that enemy is the people's friend. Imagine if the Gestapo had those possibilities.
Kasachus t1_iujxdz9 wrote
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Its not about privacy. The problem is that it doesn't really work, that the police have Noone to look over their shoulders and the repercussions for wrongfully identified people. And what i always ask is: do you trust your future government with such a potent weapon? A weapon that can identify every enemy of the state, even if that enemy is the people's friend. Imagine if the Gestapo had those possibilities.