This has been my recent thinking on this as well. I wish we didn't have ubiquitous surveillance and I wish there was a way to stop it from expanding even more b

This has been my recent thinking on this as well. I wish we didn't have ubiquitous surveillance and I wish there was a way to stop it from expanding even more but that's not the world we live in. Privacy advocates who think they can stop this at the technology level are fooling themselves. The ship has already sailed. What's left is to create a culture where the abuse of surveillance is heavily stigmatized. There are a lot of laws that could be passed to minimize the time that data is stored and how it is shared. The government is the only entity with the power to make rules to stop this, and the government is the entity that controls the spy agencies (who are the most frightening abusers of surveillance power) and could reign them in. But privacy advocates are almost always maximally skeptical of government power so they reject out of hand to work "in the system" as it were, to make changes.