The asymmetry bothers the heck out of me. I've been personally involved in investigations of law enforcement officers abusing access to privileged information. I don't get the sense that it's at all rare.

I sort of wish we could go full ADS-B[0] with cars and have public decentralized tracking (like [1]). Level the playing field for everybody.

Since I don't think we can put the genie back in the bottle I'd love to see what kind of useful applications could be created if everybody had access to the same surveillance data that government and large corporations have.

The "what about stalkers" argument always comes next. I suspect being a stalker would be more difficult if the victim (or their agents) had the ability to react to surveillance data about the stalker.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillan...

[1] https://www.adsbexchange.com/

I'd have to think about this. It doesn't seem true.

If you knew the location of every police car or city councilman's car, what would that change?