This is political control vs. democracy.
How do we do helpful surveillance without destroying everybody's freedom?
Perhaps we can't? Perhaps we just need to focus on response and deterrence measures to bad things people do?
Are we sacrificing too much by having 'prevention' measures (surveillance) in place?
Remember that modern societies allow their governments (nearly) exclusive use of firearms and jails, and yet those societies did not turn into a dystopian hellhole. Because laws, courts, checks and balances, all that stuff.
Step outside of the modern world and think about it - the tremendous imbalance of power still allows the freedoms we have today. Properly securing information access rights is a child's play by comparison.