Thinking of surveillance as necessary is treating a symptom. If a country feels it needs surveillance to stop criminals it needs to investigate what problem cri

Thinking of surveillance as necessary is treating a symptom. If a country feels it needs surveillance to stop criminals it needs to investigate what problem crime is a viable solution for. If it is to thwart terrorism, then what is motivating the terrorists. The problems here are crime and terrorism, not privacy. However, if you want to say privacy is bad then how could putting surveillance in the "private" sector fix the problem? This attitude feels like it's coming from a place where problems are quantitative (about making or saving money) and not about reducing suffering or otherwise solving qualitative problems that affect larger parts of the population. That said Industry isn't going to save America (Silicon Valley or otherwise). Corporate interest has been pretending to take the place of the new deal for 80 years all while digging a hole the country will never climb out of. Dreamers gonna dream, I guess.