It should be no surprise that this is happening. Give anyone unlimited surveillance power and it will always be abused. I live in a western EU country and have

It should be no surprise that this is happening. Give anyone unlimited surveillance power and it will always be abused. I live in a western EU country and have a friend in law enforcement. Last year, he brought me to see our city's traffic surveillance 'control room'. Almost every street corner and traffic junction here has a pole-mounted police camera transmitting video data back to servers accessible from this room and elsewhere. To summarize the demo: He was able to type a vehicle registration plate into this system, and instantly see every journey the car has taken plotted on a map, as well as the thousands of raw video clips of this vehicle that were used to generate the map.