Through failure of instinct. Seeing government agents open your letters, copy their contents, then re-seal them to send them on their way, or tap your phone and listen attentively with headphones, provokes an immediate, instinctive, visceral reaction. There's no need to construct elaborate scenarios how an ordinary law-abiding citizen could fall afoul of his government to make them see the threat.
But change those human spies into innocuous databases and convenient phones, and you lose the benefit of instinct.
The problem is that the new law would certainly have people involved in it to double check the false positives which could amount to millions of photos and messages being shared each year with LEOs.
Not to mention that they would use all this data to train the next generation of algorithms.
Through failure of instinct. Seeing government agents open your letters, copy their contents, then re-seal them to send them on their way, or tap your phone and listen attentively with headphones, provokes an immediate, instinctive, visceral reaction. There's no need to construct elaborate scenarios how an ordinary law-abiding citizen could fall afoul of his government to make them see the threat.
But change those human spies into innocuous databases and convenient phones, and you lose the benefit of instinct.