How you could make "European authoritarians" out of Catalan police (!) and how objectively observed use case can be "misrepresentation" of the system "as if they're something for criminals" is well beyond me. Especially when you equate legitimate police surveillance of drug cartels with "mass surveillance police state these people want to impose on everyone". You're just shouting words without really understanding what you're describing - and the article is practically advertisement for Graphene, not "authoritarians enablers"