The problem is that each new encroachment isn't enough to be outraged by if you take it one at a time out of context. That's how you threaten privacy without an

The problem is that each new encroachment isn't enough to be outraged by if you take it one at a time out of context. That's how you threaten privacy without anyone noticing. That's how you convince people to be okay with having zero expectation of privacy by choice. The privacy advocates were yelling "the wolf is 200 meters away!". And you were saying "it's so far away, stop being so paranoid". And then the privacy advocates were yelling "the wolf is 100 meters away now!" And you said the same. You see where this is going. Now the wolf is 50m away. And tomorrow it will be 25. How much closer does it have to get before you act? There is no reason to wait until the wolf is about to kill you in order to act. In fact, it's the worst possible time.