Is this like your belief? Transformers et al were invented by researchers with the explicit goal of surveillance and mass profiling? You think maybe that could have been an unintended effect of something/someone else? Or it's all the researchers fault?

i do not believe transformers were created by independent and autonomous researchers. will not blame individuals, no. but yeah, pretty much, I maintain the original point. if the question is what are the incentives in place and funding mechanisms to pursue such technology...surveillance and mass profiling. 'we want to serve YOU as well as we can, and we want to know what YOU stands for' kind of profiling and surveillance, not necessarily the all knowing god government kind.