And you don't need all this tech for a police state anyway. Police states have been around for a long long time. Doomsday worries about hypothetical uses of tech seem yeah very hypothetical. I agree we should fight govt encroachment on our rights, but if you do that with too paranoid of a lens, then we won't have nice things (USA 2022 in a nutshell). How about, let's fight govt oppression when/where they are actually oppressing us.