Why is it acceptable that police use facial recognition to target protestors, but "doxxing" when activists use that same technology to hold police accountable?
You're interpreting from my comment a viewpoint, but I'm really just answering the exact question. The police do need to be held to a higher standard than civilians.
If anything, cops should be held to a higher standard, so whatever's good enough for them to use against us should be doubly good enough to use against them.
By virtue of magical "government" dust. Made by the same substance used to create ink for the sacred "Social Contract" document that can't be broken, except if you move to Somalia where it has no power. /f
On a more serious note, this is the stuff Libertarians have been talking about for decades. There is no consistency to government power and laws at all, so it's all smoke and mirrors. And only backed by circular power. I.e. Government gives itself legitimacy because it is government.