We should keep a close eye on this concern. Brin's "The Transparent Society" notes that once ubiquitous, automated, cheap surveillance becomes widely available

We should keep a close eye on this concern. Brin's "The Transparent Society" notes that once ubiquitous, automated, cheap surveillance becomes widely available, the genie is out of the bottle... There isn't a scenario where nobody uses it, there are merely scenarios where we decide who may use it and what contexts. Is the same power structure that's going to attempt to ban it for private use going to refrain from use by, say, the police? Because it's not Google but will ultimately absorb the consequences of having these technologies suppressed... It's individuals who can now no longer identify who just walked into their property as easily as the police can identify who just walked into an abortion clinic.