Orthogonal example -- car protections are enacted to keep occupants safe in vehicles. Federal use of facial recognition on citizens (and others) without public

Orthogonal example -- car protections are enacted to keep occupants safe in vehicles. Federal use of facial recognition on citizens (and others) without public review and without those protections puts a lot of power in the government's hands at the expense of our privacy. Government regulations for citizens and their own protection is different that government technology use to monitor/track people. And in a country that likes to increase the use of registries, constantly wants to outlaw encryption, etc., I think there's plenty of reason to be skeptical that regulations that limit government use of these technologies isn't likely to come from Congress. Also, my point wasn't so much about the technologies, but about the utility of the kind of privacy OP was trying to manage.