The problem is that you can't effectively enforce legislation against it. Even if we were to crack down on the surveillance apparatus that we can see, unlike an

The problem is that you can't effectively enforce legislation against it. Even if we were to crack down on the surveillance apparatus that we can see, unlike analogous physical action electronic interception is practical with a tiny amount of equipment. Until you're ready to hand inspect every foot of communication line (which are almost always underground or undersea), and evaluate every switch on them down to the silicon, there's no point in attacking the problem with laws. A law can stop a large government program, but every 18 months the problem gets twice as easy for a smaller group to tackle. You can't legislate that people be nice to each other, and you can't legislate that people not copy bits.