The rise of the Security-Industrial Complex
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Apologies in advance for being a hopeless bitch.
This development of omnipresent surveillance will not be successfully pushed back. The desire for a central party to help catch criminals (depending on how they're defined) is pretty universal, and the state is the only group allowed (and with the means) to pursue justice anywhere these days.
The devices used each have wondrous private purposes, and it only makes sense to centralize a hub to compile the information, as it may save against costs and a level of miscommunication. The possibility of preventing some crime would additionally be a public benefit. Since nobody trusts each other individually now, people trust the state to at least try to look out for them.
Where things get messy is mainly in politically convenient definitions of criminal activity. Laws preventing you from buying gas guzzlers. You must report your dogecoin transactions. You can't go outside for more than an hour. You can't have more than 80 oz of beef in a year. No posting any
meanwords. No "vigilante justice" allowed. That's really the only angle I can see where people can push back successfully.