I think the point is worth foot-stomping that the technology doesn't care. Capabilities and data exist, they will be leveraged however they are leveraged. Lega

I think the point is worth foot-stomping that the technology doesn't care. Capabilities and data exist, they will be leveraged however they are leveraged. Legal restrictions are good as far as they are heeded. Legal restrictions usually include some "emergency" exception mechanism. The government merely needs to torture some facts to meet "emergency" criteria, and, behold!, all of those heretofore useful capabilities do the unexpected. One can call this an "entirely theoretical risk", but, given recent abuses, others might call it an inevitability.