It's strawmen all the way down... > If all 1000 people were involved in a shootout and fired on the police first... These are quite specifically NOT the kinds

It's strawmen all the way down... > If all 1000 people were involved in a shootout and fired on the police first... These are quite specifically NOT the kinds of incidents at issue. > there are contexts where your right to privacy should be suspended too. Again, we're not talking about these specific contexts where evidence and investigation are thorough. We're talking about exposing biases when evidence and due process are either minimal or nonexistent. > And if there were 10,000 privacy violations nationwide and all of them were well-documented emergency circumstances, I'd hesitate to even call it a problem. Yes, of course. This is clearly not a problem because of "well-documented emergency circumstances." The original article is about revealing trends from circumstances that are very poorly documented, and rarely or selectively reported.