That would work under the false assumption that they are only interested in compiling information about people engaged in anti-American or criminal activities.
The truth is that the 16 major US intelligence agencies, 100+ federal police agencies, and many others, foreign, corporate and individuals, have had more than enough surveillance powers to scrutinize serious threats.
So today, information accumulation is done for odd and arcane purposes, such as an overall sense of voyeurism, the actual resentment of privacy by others and an almost sexual enjoyment of surreptitiously gathering information about others; to incredibly advanced data mining software that always promises to deliver hidden knowledge if only it is given more data (but never does deliver).
Bureaucrats crave such compilation, because it also offers them the illusion of less work on their part. Utterly useless technologies like “terrorism detection facial and speech recognition” never work, but are tried again and again in the hope that someday they shall.
In Britain, and now coming to the US is yet another deception, the belief that a multitude of cameras in public places will achieve something. Since only a retarded person can gaze at monitors all day without going mad, and no software exists that can actually determine when a person on camera is doing something improper, such cameras are a waste of time and money.
In the UK, the government is now offering cash rewards to citizens to monitor the cameras watching them, in case they see something interesting. It is utter failure.
In the final analysis, when a government becomes terribly inefficient is dealing with the large issues of a nation, it often instead becomes obsessed with unimportant minutiae. This is an indicator that is it failing, and needs to be replaced.
And you know this how? We are about to see single Atoms used as switches, the computing power that will result from that is unimaginable.
Bear in mind that stuff has been revealed for public consumption, so I would imagine that there ae some unknown advances already.
Sky Net run amok. 👿