Compounding this injustice is the fact that the executors of this surveillance are private contractors, not a wing of the government. What's worse, these cyber mercenaries, such as Hacking Team, are contracted out by the individual ruling families of the Emirates. The abundance of technology is making the blending of sovereign and personal power extraordinarily dangerous. The voice of the demos is totally absent from all of this. Which is why modern autocracies are more dangerous than they ever have been.
Bereft of popular sovereignty, nations stand poised to allow powerful individuals to agglomerate a huge arsenal for the holding and maintaining of power. We in America need to do a better job of exercising whatever power we have in order to forestall the creeping technologically based grip on our freedoms.