@TCatInReality @SirTapTap That's a false dichotomy.
Nations with stronger privacy laws (which incidentally would rein in those techbros, along with more labor laws, antitrust and get rid of the slave visas) have no such problems as those which you enumerated that are uniquely American.
One can infer from that alone that more surveillance isn't the fix.
And surveillance isn't a risk, it's a guarantee with a law to back it. Those laws' "unintended side-effects" are fully intended.