It is getting to the point where renouncing citizenship and moving your official residence to a country with less-capable domestic surveillance might be worth it
Might be? To heck with might be, I want to know what information is on that database, why the police (government officials of the sovereign states granted but what's to stop the FBI from having these) need this information handy, and what cities are not involved in this 'information gathering' so I can move to one of those
Of course I'll be told it's for our 'safety', to help prevent voter fraud, and if I'm obeying the law it shouldn't matter to me. Well, I'm obeying the law now, but ten years from now when every armed FBI agent has one of these and more government mandates from the office of 'Homeland Security' are in place, what will it take to obey the law then? Giving up our guns and the right to protect our homes from unreasonable searches and seizures?
Oh well, the Empire marches on. Hope all the subjects are happy and safe. Because we know that's so much more important than freedom