Yeah this is the point I find myself repeatedly making. In the internet age we're increasingly grappling with increases in quantity that become a quality of their own. Capture of public data points that seems reasonable, or even harmless, at the scale of manual human work can become a major instrument of coercion when networked computers can collate information from across the globe
And do note that we have some precedence for understanding how legal actions can become illegal by magnitude with the offence of stalking. Taking pictures of people in public is generally legal, but repeatedly targeting the same person is in many cases not
And do note that we have some precedence for understanding how legal actions can become illegal by magnitude with the offence of stalking. Taking pictures of people in public is generally legal, but repeatedly targeting the same person is in many cases not