Not gonna happen, surveillance is infrastructure, many have invested in this stuff, and it is actually working, you can catch lots of events. At this point many violent crimes, kidnapping have been solved using street footage, right out from the surveillance infrastructure.<p>Also, it is a technology, it is out of the box, nation-states, security forces are just two big players, MANY private organizations have their own surveillance systems deployed, even capturing nearby events of all kinds (cameras are just one type of sensor available, for few extra bucks you can catch as much wifi, gsm, bluetooth, infrarred footage data as you want).<p>Do not forget the millions of (personal) cameras already deployed maybe 10 years ago and its coverage enlarged in the last years (now most are wifi or connected to DVRs).<p>Not that I like it a lot, but this stuff is here to stay, not because anyone says it, but because everyone is asking for this technology.