I was thinking more along the lines of cultural/opinion suppression or genocide. This is a very similar type of infrastructure. https://apnews.com/article/chin

I was thinking more along the lines of cultural/opinion suppression or genocide. This is a very similar type of infrastructure. https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-00bed6421ad8d2ccc6e69f104babe892 https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-vall... The way I see it, there are bad people everywhere (even in the government). https://local12.com/news/nation-world/police-chief-gets-caught-using-license-plate-cameras-to-track-his-ex-girlfriend-228-times-arrests-charges-probation-flock-safety-follow-stalk-new-boyfriend-broke-up-out-of-town-misuse https://local12.com/news/nation-world/police-chief-gets-caug... And, in a safe country like this one (I am in the United States but most developed countries are pretty safe), if a little petty crime is so scary to them that they need a mass surveillance network to sleep at night... I don't see any reason why the public should have to sacrifice potential freedoms for that weakness.