On one level I agree - ensuring that it&#x27;s easier for, say, a criminal gang to track unmarked police cars or abusive exes to find their victims seems a backward step.<p>The flips side of that, though, is that this power exists and is being used by rich, powerful entities <i>anyway</i>.  If I was a law-abiding member of a mosque or political group, I&#x27;d love to know that undercover law enforcement officers are trying to stir up trouble, for example.  If they can track <i>me</i>, why shouldn&#x27;t I be able to track <i>them</i>?  Or, less melodramatically, the highest rate of road fatalities in my country involve logging trucks.  There are persistent claims that companies keep them on the road for more hours than their drivers are legally allowed to work, but they&#x27;re politically shielded from official investigations.  It would be nice for citizen groups to have the tools to investigate those claims.<p>If we should be able to go about free of day-to-day surveillance (absent good, court-approved cause), which I certainly agree with, then we should be modifying laws and institutions to reflect that.  Since what we&#x27;ve got is a situation where the powerful (government agencies, large companies) use the absence of regulation and powerful tools to watch <i>us</i> the second-best option is for us to have the tools to watch <i>them</i>.