The Fourth Amendment prohibition of unreasonable search and seizure, for example, applies just as strongly to email transmissions and cell phone conversations as it does to traffic stops and warrantless home searches. Conservative principles, not surprisingly, function as well with regard to emerging technologies as they do in society in general. Remember the free market system. Conservatives have no more business outlawing private databases with federal laws than they do prohibiting ATM service fees. Information, like other goods and services, is just another commodity that entrepreneurs should be allowed to trade and sell.
Law enforcement is a legitimate concern.
Better user fees than taxes. It is stunning how quickly conservatives become discombobulated on taxation issues when the question turns to technology. The FBI wants the cell phone tracking technology to be paid for by the cell phone companies. This will pass the cost on to cell phone users, which is an unpleasant prospect but surely more desirable than levying a tax on all Americans . The question of whether or not the feds need this technology enough to justify the expense is one for a later date.