> If "to your potential detriment" is your measure then tell me if you think police checking your documents is not "to your potential detriment",
Where I live, police can't just randomly "check your documents" unless they already have some independent evidence supporting the idea that you might be involved in a crime. Which is how it should be.
It wouldn't be spying, though, since they'd be doing it openly and presumably not doing it on a continuing basis. It'd still be obscene authoritarian overreach.
> or speed/traffic camera is not "to your potential detriment",
These should of course be banned.
> or waiting in line to board the bus, etc.
This has nothing at all to do with anything and is just you trying to muddy the waters.
> Where I live, police can't just randomly "check your documents" unless they already have some independent evidence supporting the idea that you might be involved in a crime.
Yeah, then how about you match the description of a criminal. But it was an example and if you don't get the point then it's a waste of time.
> These should of course be banned.
Are you protesting them?
What if your kid gets run out by one of them speeders while walking out of school gates, will you still think speeding cameras are unnecessary?
> muddy the waters
These are all examples of having to suffer detriment due to living in a civilized society. You can pretend you don't but you do.
Why does this issue get techbros all up in arms-- I don't see them out protesting airport security checks etc. Somehow when their own lives are on the line then it's acceptable to require privacy invasive checks.
Where I live, police can't just randomly "check your documents" unless they already have some independent evidence supporting the idea that you might be involved in a crime. Which is how it should be.
It wouldn't be spying, though, since they'd be doing it openly and presumably not doing it on a continuing basis. It'd still be obscene authoritarian overreach.
> or speed/traffic camera is not "to your potential detriment",
These should of course be banned.
> or waiting in line to board the bus, etc.
This has nothing at all to do with anything and is just you trying to muddy the waters.