If this is what it takes to keep us safe, I and most americans are ok with it. We live in dangerous times.
The US has a balanced criminal justice system -- as long as due process is preserved privacy from the state should not be a major issue
The US has a balanced criminal justice system -- as long as due process is preserved privacy from the state should not be a major issue
Just look at the transparency reports of major Internet companies; they can report numbers of (certain types of) requests and that's about it. Mass surveillance under seal is not a great trend.
When political parties start advocating for jailing political opponents and treating the supreme court as political office for nominations, I find it harder to trust the current due process.
Really, we shouldn't do anything; we have the bigger problem of the eventual heat death of the universe.
Take into account not only the size of the problem, but how easy it is to do something about it.