Researchers ... successfully identified a cannabis cultivator, multiple sclerosis sufferer and a visitor to an abortion clinic using nothing more than the timin

Researchers ... successfully identified a cannabis cultivator, multiple sclerosis sufferer and a visitor to an abortion clinic using nothing more than the timing and destination of their phone calls. Unfortunately, the political actors who are the biggest cheerleaders/defenders of total surveillance are also the ones most likely to be in favor of unconstitutionally severe pursuit and punishment of drug growers, in favor of ejecting sick people from the health care system (preferring that they instead die quickly and cheaply), and in favor of publicly shaming abortion patients. In other words, a result like this is particularly likely to re-enforce existing biases more than anything else. Plenty of Americans will respond to such news by suggesting such data should be used more, not collected less.