On the other hand, powerful people who wanted to harass you or hurt you have had access like this for a long time.
It's how I feel about facial recognition technology or other ML-based technology too. The worst people who could ever have access to it, already had access to it. Giving everyone access to it is just leveling the field.
I'd love a world where the "powerless" have the same ability to leverage surveillance as the "powerful".
I'd love it if we could achieve that balance by eliminating surveillance, but I don't see that as a realistic outcome (at least initially).
In the absence of eliminating surveillance I'll take full public transparency. Maybe such transparency would even drive the elimination of surveillance.
It's how I feel about facial recognition technology or other ML-based technology too. The worst people who could ever have access to it, already had access to it. Giving everyone access to it is just leveling the field.