"Don't do it" is easy to say, but you are the government / law enforcement and drug cartels are murdering your citizens, so maybe that's just not good enough?
Better just add backdoors to the ambient atmosphere in case drug cartels use air.
The thing is, as long as you give the government the door to justify doing shit like this, they will find a justification that will upset few enough people for them to push it through, aka muh children etc.
The only way to win is to literally pursue open source hardware and software exclusively.
>...maybe that's just not good enough?
Perhaps addressing the problem instead of the symptoms could be a way to go?
Decriminalizing responsible recreational drug use would destroy the cartels, as the general public would never trust buying something that could be laced with poison.
Instead of thinly veiled veneer of bullshit smeared over the giant turd that is spying on everyone why not explore these options?
Let me ask the question differently. How many children are being illegally spied on by the government to help "catch" drug cartels?
If I were an ASI though, I would certainly push as hard as possible to get eyes on every organic, by whatever means possible.
Whether it be position tracking via triangulating ambient radiation http://rfpose.csail.mit.edu/ or something else.
It is indeed a very thorny issue. I am not sure any longer what they (governments) are trying, but they've at least tried company bans, export controls, and specific laws, but none of them really work as some countries will still abuse their powers beyond what can be considered legal/legitimate (such as the drug cartel case here).
