Comment by potato3732842

>anyone ever want to drop the guise of privacy and have the surveillance is out in the open?

No, because I have less than zero expectation that you all <points with middle fingers at HN comment section> won't happily be complicit in something that retroactively criminalizes me or otherwise screws me (and god knows how many other people, I'm fairly unremarkable) over on the basis that doing so is X% better for Y or where X is a small value and Y is a subject that is far from an existential issue for society. Society goes off on these boondoggles from time to time, eugenics, sticking the mentally ill in prisons but with pills, etc, etc and I don't want to see that sort of stuff cranked to 11 because the public tolerated a bunch of dragnet tech that serves as a force multiplier for unaccountable decision makers.