> but also am not sure how to square this with my belief that we are really gathering way too much information as a society I think a good starting point for s

> but also am not sure how to square this with my belief that we are really gathering way too much information as a society I think a good starting point for squaring this is to examine it in the context of what else the administration is doing (or not doing) to protect the privacy of citizens. This move has an enormous deleterious effect on police accountability in exchange for a fairly small increase in citizen privacy, so if the administration is ignoring more effective ways to improve the citizenry's privacy you can safely infer what really motivated their decision to back away from body cams.