they can surveil an entire city in real-time with this and track where everybody is and who they are meeting with. This has been possible for intelligence agen

they can surveil an entire city in real-time with this and track where everybody is and who they are meeting with. This has been possible for intelligence agencies since the advent of the mobile phone. By cross-referencing with financial and transit records you pretty much have a strong sense of who was proximal to who 24×7×365. For targeted surveillance, add mobile 0days readily on sale to state actors, the rapid global consolidation of cloud email/messaging/SNS providers, mix in increasing live public surveillance (transport authorities, police, etc.), vulnerabilities in network camera firmware, parking records, vehicle phone-home, bank records, post-hoc access to private surveillance footage... we already live in the golden age of state surveillance. What is more concerning is that legal protections are being eroded, new holes opened up for "national security" and "think of the children", surveillance warrants are going through the roof, and critical media is being curtailed. In Australia we've even seen the federal police raid the national broadcaster and the courts uphold it... worrying times. What can the individual do except place their entire trust in their one government? Intelligence apparatus outlive and shape political terms... especially international intelligence sharing agreements...