The double-sad is that even if this is discussed at all, 'sovereignity' seems to be the frame. 'Should we even do it at all?' doesn't exist as a question.
This get's even more substantial with the reminder that Holleriths punch cards have been used in Nazi-Germany for automating political persecution as laid out in Edwin Blacks 2001 'IBM and the Holocaust' from where this illustration is taken - a punchcard of the Amt für Rassenkunde