This article by Eleanor Saitta (Dymaxion) is excellent on this stuff: "Ethics and Power in the Long War" https://noisysquare.com/ethics-and-power-in-the-long-w

This article by Eleanor Saitta (Dymaxion) is excellent on this stuff: "Ethics and Power in the Long War" https://noisysquare.com/ethics-and-power-in-the-long-war-eleanor-saitta-dymaxion/ https://noisysquare.com/ethics-and-power-in-the-long-war-ele... You're right that stopping it politically is hard: If you look at the historical record of surveillance structures, you have never, we’ve never seen a modern state without going through a revolution or something similar, roll back deployed and operational and technical capabilities. You can though tweak the economic cost (and I'd guess that legal process is part of that, technical measures are too): The economics of spying is the structure that controls whether or not spying is done. The notion of return of investment is very germane here. How much intelligence product are you going to get for a given investment. That is what determines which intelligence methods are used.