An empty promise today is easily broken tomorrow. The best defense-in-depth against future abuse is not building the abusable system in the first place.
Adoption might start as a voluntary choice, but pervasive integration with other technology and services result in it becoming effectively mandatory.
> In general the actually existing surveillance of mobile phones that were in a certain area at a certain time is much more worrisome to me.
Integration of government ID with our smart phones is literally the next step:
If you want to argue for a slippery slope you actually have to argue for causal connecting links. You have to demonstrate how you get from A to B. That why slippery slopes are usually logical fallacies. They do not demonstrate anything. It‘s just empty handwaving.
An empty promise today is easily broken tomorrow. The best defense-in-depth against future abuse is not building the abusable system in the first place.
Adoption might start as a voluntary choice, but pervasive integration with other technology and services result in it becoming effectively mandatory.
> In general the actually existing surveillance of mobile phones that were in a certain area at a certain time is much more worrisome to me.
Integration of government ID with our smart phones is literally the next step:
https://learn.wallet.apple/id#states-list