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> I illegally search and seize everyone I lay my eyes on

This is where you need to keep in mind that there's a spectrum and a balance. Ultimately it's up to the Supreme Court to decide where the cut-off points are. To take your example and riff on it a bit:

- There's you walking to work and mentally taking note of everyone you walk past

- There's you walking to work with a video camera and casually recording everyone you walk past

- There's you walking to work with a video camera and getting into people's personal space to make sure your video accurate captures enough of their facial features to make a positive biometric identification

- There's you walking to work, seeing someone in particular, and following them to their destination while recording the entire time

- There's you putting up a high-resolution camera in front of your house to record everyone walking past, whether or not you're watching it at the time

- There's you putting up time-synchronized high-resolution cameras on every light post in your neighbourhood

- There's taking your network of time-synchronized high-resolution cameras and adding facial/person recognition to it so that you automatically get a timestamped path of where everyone walked at what time

- There's expanding your network of time-synchronized high-resolution cameras with person recognition to cover your entire city and selling access to person-location data

Figuring out where the acceptable/unacceptable cutoff line is for private citizens, corporations, and governments is going to be an interesting question that'll have to be answered in the near future.



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