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The issue with surveillance often seems to be less about having the technology and more about how it’s actually used. If it’s not applied to protect people in real situations, then it raises real questions about accountability and purpose.
When it comes to surveillance, the two characteristics are inseparable. That is, law enforcement /will/ abuse it while pitching the most seemingly legit cover story which is rarely the real purpose of the surveillance.
It’s always a matter of envisioning how it will be abused and working out whether it’s an acceptable evil compared to the likeliness of the legit use. IMO the answer is usually no, sadly enough. Snowden has put on display that surveillance users are in fact criminals themselves as they violate warrants and any kind of checks and balances.
There does not seem to ever be a realistic option to give cops a tool and expect it to only be used responsibly.