You should read David Brin’s “The Transparent Society” - while it’s a bit dated (~1997), and a bit over-optimistic about our ability to get organized and influence government policy, one of his main points is that technology makes universal surveillance cheaper at roughly Moore’s Law speeds.
The only real balance we’re going to get is by convincing government to let the public watch them also, or by having the public widely carry recording tools (which happened, not as part of a deliberate civil liberties campaign but because iPhones are shiny and because including cameras in phones lets carriers sell more data service.)
I didn’t go to TrustyCon this week - it sold out pretty quickly.
