Sure. I totally get your sense of frustration, and you're not wrong about that per se.

But in general the law still is enforced. All these things can be true at the same time, (1) We are back-sliding in our enforcement, especially for the politically powerful, (2) There are systemic attacks on the rule of law, (3) In general, the law is still enforced, and (4) There is movement in the court system towards better privacy protections. Even at the very top, arguably corrupt levels of the courts, we see things like Carpenter v. US. And others like that. Those trickle down into a million cases at lower levels of the judicial system. It takes a long time, and the system is not a monolith. It moves slowly. But it moves.

There are like a million court cases every day where there is no political angle, and the right thing happens. The courts slap down 4A violations all the itme, like lack of warrant. And we're seeing a big upswing in cases with a political angle, where the courts stand up against malicious prosecutions too.

So you are right, problems exist! Absolutely. But be careful, b/c frequency of reporting is not frequency of occurence! The right thing happening is not news. It happens all the time, with no outrage-pumping headlines.

My main point is, it isn't a black and white situation. We can't simply say, "The law isn't being enforced, so it is meaningless". That's too black and white. It is being enforced, imperfectly. And it is NOT meaningless to have legal protections for privacy invasions.

We have probs, yes. A shitton of 'em. But we also have to be careful of not falling into doomerism. That leads to bad outcomes.