understood. thank you for your patience.

that makes sense. but I can still legislate which actions he and everyone else is capable of legally doing… e.g. collecting data to surveil members of the public.

I guess that is my confusion.

why would “legislation to be passed that criminalized the usage of personal data for surveillance” fall under this attainer scenario? seems very similar to “legislation passed that criminalized murder”…

wouldn’t a law against murder also be punishing a specific individual or group?