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Maybe I'm all washed up here, but these things which, to some, seem harmless at first are like weeds that don't do much above ground until the have established a tough and deep taproot.

Consider ATM cards if you were banking as far back as the early 80's. The cards were free, you could use them to your heart's content anywhere, no fees regardless of balance, or bank at which they were used.

After cards became essential to people's day to day lifestyles, in creep the fees. I know plenty of marketing people who use similar strategies to get folks accustomed to a new paradigm, then habituated to it, then the rules change.

The same techniques are in place here. "It's just gonna be for this only."

Once it becomes so familiar as to be part of the psychological landscape, its uses can be expanded to support all manner of nefarious applications.

The travesty of it all is why use such sophisticated cameras to read license plates when they could be photographing Labrat's ass?