[Nevermark]

Surveillance replaces ostensible individual fringe threats with a clear dangerous pervasive and (for practical purposes) irreversible threat that monotonically aggregates increasing centralized leverage over every aspect our lives, direct and indirect.

Knowledge is power. Forced revelation of our inner lives puts each of us in a position of vulnerability.

Even when "not abused", the very real latent threat actively takes away freedoms of thought and action.

It is extreme abuse.

It undermines any sense that the state works for the people, when it operationally embodies a maximalized one-way threat over all citizens.

AI collation exponentially compounds the threat, the passive and active damage.

One of the wisest ethical/safety concepts ever: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated."

Democracy that sets up the levers of total autocracy is the greatest possible perversion and threat to democracy. Democracy only works as long as it recognizes government is the greatest threat to freedom. And that strict limitations on its power over citizens is the only defense.