>I'm a bit perturbed that people on this board aren't more concerned about the many bad ways that this can be used for, especially since police oversight is not

>I'm a bit perturbed that people on this board aren't more concerned about the many bad ways that this can be used for, especially since police oversight is notoriously bad, in virtually every country, including the west. On the contrary, I share the concern, but I don't share the conclusion that police should be relegated to crunching data with nothing more complicated than an abacus (obvious hyperbole) because of abuse concerns. I also believe in a level of consistency that states no, you do not have a right to privacy in public. Any such abuses should be dealt with on a case-by-case, abuse-by-abuse basis, rather than unreasonable blanket bans. And any such cases must be ruled based on existing law, rather than what amounts to bench legislation.