I'm curious, was there any pushback to its introduction ? In France, when the government tried to introduce something like this in 1973, it (eventually) caused

I'm curious, was there any pushback to its introduction ? In France, when the government tried to introduce something like this in 1973, it (eventually) caused a scandal (after a scathing Le Monde article), which resulted in the whole project being scrapped, and the French data protection authority CNIL being created : https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/bugbrother/2010/12/23/safari-et-la-nouvelle-chasse-aux-francais/ https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/bugbrother/2010/12/23/safari-et-... (fr) (CNIL was later defanged in 2004.)