> _what motivates our leaders to allow surveillance in the first place_ Surveillance makes their jobs easier, so there's a kind of natural tendency towards aut

> _what motivates our leaders to allow surveillance in the first place_ Surveillance makes their jobs easier, so there's a kind of natural tendency towards authoritarianism. We've known about this for a long time, the 4th Amendment was created to put limits on government surveillance. If you're wondering why the government would allow private businesses to spy on everybody when the government itself isn't allowed to, that's because this allows for the government to effectively bypass the 4th Amendment. The government spying on everybody is against the Constitution, but a private business spying on everybody and selling the data to the government is "legal".