Surveillance technologies themselves is also a tool, dangerous one. It's only bad when wielded by bad characters. The problem, I feel, is lack of transparency,

Surveillance technologies themselves is also a tool, dangerous one. It's only bad when wielded by bad characters. The problem, I feel, is lack of transparency, what exactly is the government collecting, and how they are being used, etc. Once those information are made public, then we can allow the judiciary system to decide on a case by case level what is allowed and what is not.