[komeijist]

It is a huge issue, there have been plenty regimes that practically wished for this type of technology. What if Nazi Germany had access to all this tech? Perhaps this is a stereotypical example, I would agree, but what makes you so confident there will never be bad actors to abuse systems we put up?

You don't fail to see how it would keep researchers busy for years, but why would only researchers be interested?

Collective benefit over individual rights is not a novel discussion. I see people trying to make a case for individual rights be construed as anti-collective benefit. These people however are also just people, trying to speak for what they think is right, but often times get criticized for it. A lot of times people consider starkly different cost-balance calculations and arrive at different conclusions but this is rarely made explicit. What if you set the time scale a little differently? Corona might be ravaging the world today, but how about in 50 years? 15? Laws to combat terrorism passed during times of crisis that were supposed to be temporary are still here (not a US resident, I might be misinformed, but I hope my point is evident).