Anyone who says that is a fool, especially in the times we're living in now.
I think I'd be a fool if I acted as if they wouldn't have access to the information anytime they felt like it before. If your imagination gives you the warm fuzzies with the belief that there are any realistic limits on the government now though, I guess that's worth something.
Everyone has something, everyone has broken some law, everyone has had some transgression somehow, someplace, somewhere.
Giving the Government legal carte blanche to comb over your personal, travel, financial, posting, surfing, sexual, educational, professional, employment, entertainment, or any other history with a fine tooth comb and compare it every law in the Federal Register to look for violations (something I am certain they can do with AI now or in the near future) and prosecute at their pleasure.
Beria, the head of Stalin's State Security is famous for having said "Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime."
That is not only exactly what this is for, this is where we are headed. And believe me, this will be far more encompassing, invasive, and tyrannical than anything Stalin, Beria, Mao, Castro, or Xi could possibly dream of. And all of them, most of all Xi, can dream of a lot.
Technology, cheap storage, high speed networks have been things most people in the last 40 years have clamored for, and those things have indeed improved our lives in countless ways. But that said, those wonderful things, when paired with ubiquitous cameras and surveillance equipment, access to all that information mentioned above regarding your current and historical information, brought together by people who have amply demonstrated they are no different than the East German Statsi circa 1981, is a chilling and frightening prospect indeed.
Over the last decade or two, I have often thought of Winston Churchill's famous passage in his "Finest Hour" speech:
"...But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science..."
It is that "lights of perverted science" that has really been eating at me
When you have a country like Communist China (being promoted as something America should emulate by many Americans including many high in our government in this administration) who, by 2022-2023 is expected to have one state operated video surveillance camera for every two citizens, partnering with Google, which shapes and forms the "facts" meted out to billions of people every single day, that should give us serious pause.
Those "lights of perverted science" were not even a faint future gleam in June of 1940.
Today, those "lights of perverted science" are not only are they a reality, we are currently being crushed by them, and this is only the beginning.
Our Founding Fathers knew all too well that human behavior was inherently and unavoidably flawed, and innocently placing trust and power into the hands of people who promised to handle that power benevolently was not only a pipe dream, but it was something the entire American Revolution was based on fighting, and the Constitution was exquisitely constructed to prevent: The power of an overbearing government being concentrated in the hands of people and giving them the ability to tyrannize people.