having a policeman standing in your kitchen to prevent domestic dispute, ensuring security. a webcam in all bedrooms would ensure more security and possibly pr

having a policeman standing in your kitchen to prevent domestic dispute, ensuring security. a webcam in all bedrooms would ensure more security and possibly prevent other types of crime. most people wouldn't go for those - some security measures are too invasive and ripe for abuse to support. unless you've missed it, your location and contact endpoints are now permanently stored, and some of your conversations both written and audible are. if one of your associates is within a certain number of hops from someone deemed undesirable - so are you. the reason the london met phone hacking scandal resulted in outcry was that the general public could understand what happened. this is slightly beyond their ken but it's the same problem - questionable powers that are ripe for abuse.