Everyone knows how the invasion of Iraq was a complete mistake. Has someone gone to jail?
The public is not going to shutdown anything they are wholly complicit in and benefit from. Which is why empires eventually fall.
I'd like to think that'd be the case, but consider one of the more-recent privacy intrusions with "The Fappening" ... very little became of that, despite the wealthy, high-profile individuals involved. I realize they weren't the politically connected, but they were certainly what society considers "VIPs".
This has happened in the past and the reaction from the individual people has been to 180 completely on their opinion of surveillance (there was a recent post with sources, but I don't have it handy). This could work.
Laws will be created pretty quickly, but only to protect VIPs.
Work in the greater D.C. area. Within a 150-200 mile radius, there are literally tens of thousands of developers working directly on surveillance. Probably even more. How do I know this? From random sampling. Go to any tech event, talk to any program manager at any government contractor. The work and money is in surveillance.
And, that's just government surveillance. All that tech is then spilling over into corporate surveillance. Location and behavioral tracking is big money. How do I know this? Because, sadly, that's how I have to make my money. The problem is that there's always another grunt like me willing to create the systems that enable this.
The solution: Use all of this surveillance tech and data to expose all of the VIPs. Publicly post where they are and where they've been, who they've been with, what they read, and what they buy. You do this and laws will be created pretty quickly.