content: The biggest problem is this: There are, in fact, probably people who can do this sort of thing "properly."  However, there aren't many of them, and whoever replaces them is likely going to inherit their powers, but not necessarily their ethics.  Plus, even those who can do it "properly" can sometimes be compromised (sometimes with the use of force or coercion). Plus even with that in mind you're going to have nice big silos of data that make enforcement of ridiculous and dangerous new rules instantaneous and automatically enforced, whereas before you had to spend a great deal of time and money and as a result some of the more ridiculous laws were almost never enforced.  And of course, hackers breaking into those silos for who-knows-what purposes, but you can bet that they aren't going to be secured. It's not always the guy that's currently sitting in the seat that you're reasonably afraid of.  It's everything around him, and the guy who's going to replace him.