I'm not entirely sure that this is what has me worried. The government should be using the same tools I could rent from Russian botnet owners and a geolocation

I'm not entirely sure that this is what has me worried. The government should be using the same tools I could rent from Russian botnet owners and a geolocation service. What has me scared is that the people directing this don't actually understand it all. They don't understand Big Data analysis and why that requires all the phone records. They don't understand how boring a concept geolocation is, or in fact how boring a database of possible attack vectors is. It's all magic - magic they can control if they just pass another law abolishing some silly, antiquated civil rights that only pertained in the age of musketry.