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People often use those good intentions to silence dissent. If anyone questions their actions you can just spin it to say "well then you obviously don't care about [good intention, ie “grandmas dying of COVID”]".

So they are a very critical piece of the puzzle with this sort of abuse of power. They can very easily muddy the waters and obfuscate things.

It's often the side effects of their actions anyway. In this case the access the app provides is the side effect. The side effects outweighing the alleged benefits is what matters. Easily the most often recurring problem is politics. 1 step forward, 2 steps back.