The Subordination of Privacy to Law Enforcement
For many years US, British, and European governments aided and abetted the over-running of their countries by immigrant-invaders, an invasion that included many criminal gangs. Then to combat the crime that the governments had willfully imported, the corrupt governments attacked the privacy of their citizens demanding access to everyone’s digital records. The overall effect was to turn nations into towers of babel and to overturn constitutional rights as obstructions to law enforcement.
Matt Taibbi discusses the current state of this conflict between tyranny and freedom here: