[unixfox]

The government is always going to snoop on its citizens to the extent technology facilitates its citizens allow them to do so.

FIXED!

[Cboldt]

"Technology allows" is counter to "citizens allow." The only time unconstitutional snooping by the government is enforced is in criminal court.

Citizen objection has no advance power in the calculation.

I followed the class action suits based on bulk surveillance. The suits were consolidated into one big class action, eventually dismissed (9th Circuit) on state secrets grounds.

I know of no case where a government actor was punished for illegal surveillance, but admit to not having done more than 10 hours of research in that specific direction.

Privacy: An Overview of Federal Statutes Governing Wiretapping and Electronic Eavesdropping