+1. Underrated point. We all need the freedom to make mistakes and learn and grow from them.

On top of this, now we can search through someone's entire life for the worst thing they ever did or said. To use that against them. Maybe they run for political office. Maybe it's to blackmail them for profit or for espionage. Maybe to get back at htem over a slight.

This is why autocrats and tyrannical governments love surveilence. Because it gives them power over those they surveil.