"As for the FalcoNet system itself, the core principle people are rightfully freaking out about is the fact that it can hoover up private data from unsuspecting people en masse and in secret.

I don't consider myself a person with anything to hide, but I still hate this with a passion. Just the other day, a member of our very own staff was wrongfully detained by corporate-controlled cop tech!

And as Cybernews pointed out, the legality of such things is still questionable.

In fact, the Supreme Court ruled (Chatrie v United States) "that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in location data revealing their movements, and that even short-term tracking of that kind counts as a search under the Fourth Amendment."

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China has perfected similar technologies; also their Security Forces track millions of public cameras, and giving up your DNA there is also required.