>I am first generation American.

You make some good points.  There are benefits to privacy.  Are they enough
to surmount the burdens?  I don't know.  There is a right answer, I guess.
But I suppose that it is not truth that will reign here.  Rather, I suspect
popular opinion/Congressional opinion.  It's interesting that no one (that I
have seen yet) has made a constitutional argument here.  Some say privacy is
guaranteed by the constitution guarantees privacy. That could have been a
fun one.