I feel like this is a huge digression, but this is basically the perfect counter-argument to "its never been illegal to write down license plate numbers/stake out people's houses/write down the addresses of mail delivered to a home/etc, why should we make new rules now that AI is doing it?"

Obviously manually interceding whenever you have a server failure is unsustainable when you have 1000 (or more servers). Why do people somehow believe that manually interceding to prevent bad action with surveillance is somehow sustainable, when previously the rate limiter was that the surveillance itself was manual?