Imho more worrisome is that governments can find easy justification to lock up or punish everyone “at will”; because HAVING data to jail someone doesn’t mean the government will uniformly ACT on it :-) they can be picky - and will be as we are seeing across Europe these days/months/years. Certain laws and offenders are rigorously enforced; others not so much…
Oh yes, we did learn this lesson in eastern Europe, didn't we? I guess our friends across the Atlantic will need to torture a generation to learn as well.