I am totally opposed to the idea of complete state surveillance but I would like to share an alternative point of view. Perhaps DRIPA and IPA will push technology forward so that encryption becomes widely adopted to the point where it is no longer practical to collect and process data at mass. While the state will still be able to target (not good but happens anyway) privacy will simply shift in another realm through adoption of better hardware and software encryption technologies, P2P networks, Bitcoin, etc. In such environment the security industry will flourish.
It was the Renaissance and the French Revolution. And yes, the printing machine helped the spread of ideas. But so did Voltaire, Thomas Paine, the Quakers, etc. You cannot have progress and freedom without humanistic disciplines.
