That's pretty much exactly how it seems to me. I guess I understand how American fans who were born after 9/11 and Facebook might have a different perspective, because privacy means something different now--but it's cognitive empathy, which means I understand their feelings, not the sympathetic empathy of someone who shares it.

Ironically, I learned these cognitive empathy skills from Captain Picard, and still consider TNG possibly the best way to expose young people to the skill. :-)

But like, they can still track you. And removing the badge that lets them track you is basically a crime. Also section 31 exists basically just to track and monitor people.

Also HIPPA HIPAA

First thing I'd do when boarding a Federation ship is tell the computer it's authorized to keep an eye on my vitals.

Since when was there an expectation of privacy on a Starfleet ship?

scanning for life-signs

Yeah, and I've never figured out the security feature that makes scanning for life-signs more effective when you sign a little song to the computer. But sometimes I guess it's just more urgent to know, little life signs, where are you?

Yes, he could teleport a copy of myself but I would still be dead then, my soul sipping tea with the interdimensional koala while watching my copy do all the stuff I no longer can.

That's not how the pattern buffer works. It's extremely unstable. And patterns can neither be copied, nor scanned without destroying a person

Except for that time the enterprise became intelligent in emergence and birthed a new lifeform

And someone just needs to program that function in

Edit: to clarify I'm talking about programming a function in for medical emergency detection and not computer intelligence

Almost, but quite to point of human "jobs" in The Culture books, where benevolent AIs actually run everything. Humans are considered by the AIs as pets.