There is plenty of technology available to private citizens and companies that cannot be freely used by government entities, unchecked, on a massive scale. The

There is plenty of technology available to private citizens and companies that cannot be freely used by government entities, unchecked, on a massive scale. The news is that the government wants to use a new technology that is rife for abuse, which currently has no regulation when used by law enforcement, and Amazon wants to sell it to them. Amazon might be a bogeyman here, but calling out the potential for abuse by governments of new tech is a primary function of the press in a modern free society.