[thinkmilitant]

I think we'll be asking this question over and over in the coming decades.

I personally think it would be foolish to take a hard-line stance on our law enforcement agencies adopting new, more powerful tools to do their job. We don't need to freeze our law enforcement agencies in the 20th century. We do need to open them up to increased transparency and oversight to ensure these tools are used correctly.

[kakarot]

Right. We shouldn't be trusting a black box government with executive rights anymore than we should be trusting black box microprocessing platforms inside of our CPUs with executive control over our desktop. I see absolutely no difference in these analogies for the given use case