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I remember 1980s government policy reasons for refusing to collect individual personal information outside the scope of project mandate or the law were 1) it costs money to collect it, 2) it costs money to store it, 3) information cannot be secured indefinitely, 4) the cost to victims of disclosure would be high, and 5) the liability of #4 isn't worth it

nowhere in this article or the HN comments does it talk about funding of surveillance tech. if you want to control surveillance, then control the financing of it with a publicly accountable/transparent external oversight board whose members have as no conflict of interest with the source, path, or destination of the money