You hvae a right to privacy regarding your personal effects, unless there is probable cause of enough veracity to have a warrant issued by a judge.
Probable cause means some specific facts that tie you to a specific crime ... not some vague thing that says you mightn be involved in criminal activity if you transfer X amouint of money ... or in today's world, if you cary X amount of money with you. A judge then reviews the specific facts and decides if it is warranted. If it is, he signs it and a warrant is issued. That leads to the search and the meddling by the government at that point for good and proper cause.
The actions beinmg discussed do not fit into that in the least. They are blanket intrusions into everyone's rights without such process being accomplished. Ultimately they will prove dangerous to us all. As Jefferson said, "Those who give up essential liberty for security end up losing both".
So, these rights are being pushed aside under the color of law, but they are being pushed aside just the same.
One of the early Supreme Court Chief Justices stated that any Act of Congress, repugnant to the Constitution was null and void. They can only be null and void if the people recognize their loss and stand up to it.
Don't get me wrong. We must fight the terrorist threat and the nations that support them. We must secure our borders and not hamstring law enforcement.
You don't do that by putting the clamp down on every citizen. You do that by focusing on the specific problems and making sure we are able to speedily investigate, prosecute and punish the criminal using probable cause, warrants, speedy trial by jury and then swift judgement and execution of that judgement ... all the while retaining our rights in the process.
Just my two cents.