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Yes, I think it's worth tolerating and I think all queries should be logged and monitored for abuse. Kidnapping already is not legal to do.

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We're already seeing that federal agents are finding clever ways to access this data while hiding the fact that they're federal agents: https://www.404media.co/floridas-wildlife-cops-are-searching...

And that's right now. They don't currently own the infra. If you think they're going to be better behaved once they do, you're delusional.

But if persons in power are already not being held accountable, what the heck is a log file going to do?

If people in power can freely get away with kidnapping than there are bigger problems to fix to restore law and order.

Exactly my point and you’re describing giving those people more power and suggesting an unenforced audit log is all we need to keep check.

I never suggested an inenforced audit log.

Who enforces checking the log for overreach then? The cops/pols that can’t be trusted to use it?

And giving those same people more power makes it more difficult to fix the core problems.

It doesn't. It's just as easy / hard to vote such a person out.

The people they're having abducted are the people that speak out about their misbehavior. Enabling those abductions very directly makes it harder to vote them out.

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