Could you please not use allcaps for emphasis in HN comments?

This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

This is already stuff the Department of Homeland Security is doing - this is like an action plan for "future releases". The government (and the people who are involved in it) willfully want to do this and have decided they will start doing it. It makes me think of the teenager who gets caught smoking by their parents, is told to stop because it's bad, then sneaks out at night and smokes anyways because they wanted to and came up with some reason to justify it.

On another note, I can only imagine what some of the less-accountable governments would to do with this information if they looked at the DHS as an example. Any authoritarian government wanting to maintain their position above the public would love to have complex PII available at the execution of a query.

No reason to imagine, just look at what the soviet states got up to and adjust for modern data theory.

Been rewatching Person of Interest lately and kind of think that's Homeland Security's wet dream...

Less accountable governments? You mean governments that are significantly less armed than their populace? Only way I know to keep a government accountable...

This is a direct attack on basic free will and it is way past time that we stand up to our traitorous enemies.