It's hard to tell if that's what's going on here, but it seems pretty clear this ability and more like it will be quite apparent in the future.
I have seen some poorly considered projections of what the world might look like when this happens. Usually by assuming bad actors will use the abilities and we will be powerless.
Except I don't think that is true.
Imagine if we had a world where nobody had the ability to keep a secret of any sort. Any action that a bad actor might perform would be revealed because they couldn't do it secretly.
You could browse your ex-girlfriend's email, but at the cost of everyone knowing you did it.
I don't really know how humans as a society would react to a situation like that. You don't have to go snooping for muck, so perhaps the inability to do so secretly would mean people go about their lives without snooping.
I could imagine both good and terrible outcomes.
> projections of what the world might look like when this happens
I've done this a few times. A world with 0 privacy would definitely be safe (given benign governance), but also would likely be pretty boring. Crime would become a non-issue as everything about everyone being easily known/knowable by everyone else means the root of any given crime, some desire/need, could be brought to the fore and resolved before it became an actual issue. But also there would no longer be any kind of surprise in anything; everything and everyone would essentially become dull and grey, and humanity isn't about that kind of life experience at all.
> given benign governance
quite unrealistic imo, thus we (maybe and hopefully) needn't worry about the bland minority report future you're hypothesizing :)
In such a world, the government could never be overthrown.
All governments go bad eventually, so the ability to overthrow is critical to prosperity.
Government's are either overthrown internally (revolt, uprising) or by external parties (invasion). A worldwide everyone-knows-everything would prevent both.