Surveillance train has left the station, can't be stopped any more. It's just too cheap to use cameras, wireless and large HDDs. AI can sift through videos efficiently.<p>So, the only way back to balance is to do government surveillance, and more generally, to have a multi-way surveillance society in which a single actor doesn't have monopoly. We have to go all the way now, short of destroying all surveillance equipment everywhere and making sure nobody recreates it, which, given incentives, it's impossible to enforce.<p>The main problem now is balance of power, not if we like surveillance or not. This new power must not be put only in the hands of an elite. By the same doctrine of "separation of powers", we should not concentrate all surveillance power in a single point, because it lacks checks and balances.