I agree to disagree with it being an acceptable trade-off.
> The question is if we can do this without the people in charge abusing or not.
I think this is the main question and goes hand in hand with whether governments should be able to decrypt the internet.
Please let me move around freely, meet the people I want to meet, without having me added to some database of people with suspect contacts. I am fine with granting "criminals" the same privileges (as I posted in a comment yesterday[0] I am definitely a criminal, given the definition of the word).
You start with cameras everywhere for facial recognition, then you add microphones... it's hard to encrypt real-life discussion without inventing a new language, which could be easily decrypted anyways.
> The question is if we can do this without the people in charge abusing or not.
I think this is the main question and goes hand in hand with whether governments should be able to decrypt the internet.
Please let me move around freely, meet the people I want to meet, without having me added to some database of people with suspect contacts. I am fine with granting "criminals" the same privileges (as I posted in a comment yesterday[0] I am definitely a criminal, given the definition of the word).
You start with cameras everywhere for facial recognition, then you add microphones... it's hard to encrypt real-life discussion without inventing a new language, which could be easily decrypted anyways.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23630386