Decreasing the cost of government mass surveillance by developing more efficient tools to do it will inevitably increase the amount/scope of surveillance. This

Decreasing the cost of government mass surveillance by developing more efficient tools to do it will inevitably increase the amount/scope of surveillance. This is Econ 101: as cost goes down, demand goes up. Claiming that you aren't responsible for increased privacy intrusion just because you built the tools to do it cheaply and then handed the actual operation off to someone else is is a despicable abdication of obvious responsibility.