Heh. If we can't stop it we can at least exploit it, right?

All this surveillance and transparency might actually make things better iff we can force the government to be more transparent than the people. Imagine a government that is so well surveilled by the people that the people could trust it to surveil them in return. That doesn't seem to be where things are heading though.

This is what I see as the breaks being put on this kind of surveillance.

At some point, everyone is monitored, once the playing field is leveled to include people in high-profile positions also being monitored, I think there will be at lease some revolt from a legal perspective.