Let’s get rid of the “vs!” It’s time to abandon zero-sum pursuits: we don’t need to give up our privacy/liberties— we need to embed them into emerging technologies.

When discussing police tech and privacy, I’m always reminded of how German police caught the serial autobahn shooter (700+ shootings over 5+ years); they used license plate scanners and stored the data, which was controversial in Germany for privacy reasons (and illegal?).

I’m certain they had obtained a warrant to do this, which is certainly permitted in order to investigate crimes for which the policy have probable cause.