The problem is that as governments gain access to new technological capabilities and exploit crises to acquire more emergency powers, increasingly large numbers

The problem is that as governments gain access to new technological capabilities and exploit crises to acquire more emergency powers, increasingly large numbers of peoples’ threat models begin to include government. The best hopes against a population-wide Chinese-style social credit system being implemented in the US remain constitutional and cultural, but the more architectural help we get from technology the better. “Code is law” is still a valid observation.