They will try to chisel away at rights (with some success), but if you think about what they are up against, they will always be playing wack-a-mole. No matter

They will try to chisel away at rights (with some success), but if you think about what they are up against, they will always be playing wack-a-mole. No matter how good the surveillance teams are, they will never completely control humanity nor know everything at all times. They simply aren't capable of it. In addition, the wants are limitless but their budgets are constrained by what they can reasonably appropriate. As they make it harder to do business (by introducing security holes or ruining trust) the amount they can appropriate becomes less. In addition, they become buried by an ever increasing amount of information that their inefficiency can't handle. I have no doubt some of the best and brightest in the world work for for secret agencies. But operationally they are still bureaucracies. Thus, they have no shortage of lazy and stupid people... many of whom are in leadership positions. In fact I believe these pleas for unconstitutional shortcut tools are the pleas of lazy and unimaginative people. People who don't want to be found probably have much more reason to worry if the special pleading ever stops. Because at that point there may be truly more competent people running the program.