I guess I'm kinda confused by this whole privacy issue. It seems to me that the lack of it only leads to more efficient prosecution of lawbreakers. Why do you care who finds out how you live your life? If you don't want everyone to find out what you've been doing, why not just not do it? A transmitter telling the police how well you drive wouldn't be such a big deal if you kept it down below 90, and I don't care who has my hair samples because I don't do drugs. It's not the right to privacy everyone wants but the right to break laws. And those laws exist because the voting populace (NOT the American people, tragically) selects people whose political viewpoints are consistent with those laws. If you have a problem, campaign. Vote. Elect someone who agrees with you. (Professional wrestlers can be useful for this.) But you have to ask yourself, "What is it that I'm doing that I don't want people to know about?"
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I guess I'm kinda confused by this whole privacy issue. It seems to me that the lack of it only leads to more efficient prosecution of lawbreakers. Why do you care who finds out how you live your life? If you don't want everyone to find out what you've been doing, why not just not do it? A transmitter telling the police how well you drive wouldn't be such a big deal if you kept it down below 90, and I don't care who has my hair samples because I don't do drugs. It's not the right to privacy everyone wants but the right to break laws. And those laws exist because the voting populace (NOT the American people, tragically) selects people whose political viewpoints are consistent with those laws. If you have a problem, campaign. Vote. Elect someone who agrees with you. (Professional wrestlers can be useful for this.) But you have to ask yourself, "What is it that I'm doing that I don't want people to know about?"