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It's an interesting subject until the article repeatedly suggests that these searches are going to be used to hunt down women who seek abortions. They could have picked literally any crime to pose that rhetorical situation for.

>>the_do+(OP)
Yeah, it's rhetorical. Abortion is a timely subject. Last year, it could have been searching for "Black Lives Matter" groups, or 3-percent, or the address of the Capitol building on January 5th.

The big question here is "how much authority should the government have?", or the similar "how much crime is the right amount?". Don't say "complete authority" and "zero crime", unless you think the American revolution was a bad move, slavery should still exist as an institution, civil rights should never have happened, the Pentagon papers should still be a secret, etc.

>>the_do+(OP)
They had to pick one that was a popular current topic of outrage. A couple of years ago they would have (and did) worried about using face recognition to identify rioters destroying property because back then, those people were the "breaking the law but should get away with it because politics" types of criminals.