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so I don't imagine you would have any problem giving me a nuclear weapon. after all it's only a problem after I use it right?



Yes, because recording license plates is even remotely comparable to a genocide machine.


When talking about the subject of abuse of course it is. You yourself made an analogy to guns for crying out loud.


No, it's not. A nuclear weapon is a special case. Guns are not, as it's already accepted that many people can own them despite their risk levels.

"It could be abused" is not a valid reason not to do something, because everything is abused. It's human nature to abuse power. "The consequences of inevitable abuse are too severe to risk." is a better argument. What are the consequences of the abuse of this information? What, of these consequences, are possible only by the abuse of this information? What can go wrong when this system gets abused?

Those are the relevant questions, and what we should be discussing, not quietly yelping, "my privacy" as we're each drug out of our beds into the night.




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