I think you missed the point of the parent post. What's to stop governments from having a perpetual state of semi-emergency with always-on citizen tracking "because we don't know when this could happen again"? I think some worry over this is warranted.

> What's to stop governments from having a perpetual state of semi-emergency with always-on citizen trackin

The same thing that stops companies from doing it continously and selling that data to the government, companies, bounty hounters, and ad sellers... I don't know what it is actually.

Oh dear god, people took my post seriously? I meant it as overwrought sarcasm. No wonder I got so few downvoters.