Fighting use of such capabilities will always be a losing battle, because there will always be a situation that makes the majority clamor for greater powers. The only way to preserve security is to prevent the capability in the first place. This means building technology that preserves personal privacy and autonomy, rather than naive implementations that are easy to monetize.

All of us are culpable, to the degree we contribute cleartext to the butt and encourage others to do so as well, for creating these massive data silos that are gifts to (micro)politicians everywhere.