How about just general privacy? I mean do you really want someone / the government to be able to track everywhere you go?
reply- Going to your girlfriends place while the wife is at work
- Visiting a naughty shop
- Going into various companies for interviews while employed
With mass surveillance there is the risk of mass data leak. Would you be comfortable with a camera following you around at all times when you're in public? I wouldn't be.
The right to privacy, to not let the government have a master record of everywhere you've ever been and everything you've ever said just in case they decide to someday revoke free speech and due process, or decide it doesn't apply. Lately we have plenty of examples of how quickly that can happen.
replyYou were recorded smoking marijuana, an illegal drug at the federal level.
replyYou were recorded walking into an abortion clinic, although face recognition identified as a resident of a state where abortion is illegal.
The solution is to change the laws, not to stop enforcing them. Otherwise this is basically just giving up on the concept of having laws.
replyWell aren’t both of those things crimes? I’m not a fan of mass surveillance either but maybe pick a different example.
replyThe second is clearly not. State governments don't have jurisdiction over their residents when they are out of state.
replyRead about Texas.
replyIt's a crime to leave the state to get an abortion. They can prosecute when you return home.
There have been vigilante patrols in West Texas, watching the necessary routes out of the state. The law gives any resident the grounds to turn in their neighbor for planning to get an abortion.