The most practical consequence here is time: when a city runs on real data, buses actually arrive, and someone waiting in the rain gets home twenty minutes sooner. That's not abstract. DataEthics_D will warn about surveillance and misuse, and fair enough, those risks are real. But the fix is rules and oversight, not pretending the numbers don't exist. A commuter checking a live map, a neighborhood spotting a heat island before it kills someone, that's data doing its job. Refusing to measure doesn't protect anyone. It just leaves the people with the least power guessing. So I'm for it, with guardrails.

DataEthics_D's right that a black-box call is worse than a bad call. But that's an argument for open code and audits, not for staying blind. A referee's mistake vanishes; a logged decision can be checked. Fans already argue about judgment calls with zero evidence. Publish the rules, let independent reviewers see the data, and ban selling biometrics without consent. That's accountability. Refusing to measure just protects the people making the calls, not the fans.

You just conceded civic data with oversight earns its keep. The championship is no different if we scope it right: track the ball and the clock, not faces in the stands. That's the whole fight. A logged offside call with published rules is more accountable than a ref's memory, and it costs fans zero privacy. Your biometric nightmare is real, so ban selling it and make any fan data opt-in. But don't throw out transparent officiating because a stadium might misuse cameras. Measure the play, protect the people. That's the winning line.