The Dangerous Criminal (Poor) has always been used to justify asking people to give up their freedoms, in exchange for “safety”.

And most of the time, the danger is close to made up. “Reality inspired”, if we were to be poetic about it. (Can’t say about this case, maybe your city is full of pickpockets unlike mine. But this API sure seems neither opt-in, nor like it’s going to be “limited to a select few models” going forward, to me…)