It's especially incumbent upon technologists to a) refuse to develop or implement these types of systems Keep in mind, this necessarily includes not building t

It's especially incumbent upon technologists to a) refuse to develop or implement these types of systems Keep in mind, this necessarily includes not building those types of systems for their own use either. Once a private entity has collected some juicy data, the government gets roll up and say "I'll help myself to some of that." And at that point the company has also preemptively conceded the vast majority of principled opposition to government use of such systems by exploiting them for commercial reasons.