We can wax Orwellian as much as we'd like, but until you actually have evidence of these supposed abuses happening, most people will recognize your slippery-slope for what it is, and stop paying attention to you.
Pre-crime goes both ways; are you really prepared to string up an organization for a crime it could commit, because you've "seen the future"?
When it's a government agency violating my privacy against my will, and against the spirit of the law, then yes, absolutely I am prepared to put limits on their ability to do that due to the extreme risk of abuse. Limits on government power exist for a reason. Because governments inevitably expand and abuse their power.
It's very very far from a foregone conclusion that they're a) violating the letter or spirit of any law and b) even violating your privacy in the first place.
Besides, the whole point of a democracy is that you, specifically, aren't supposed to have very much power. What you're prepared to do isn't what most people are prepared to do, because this perceived threat is not an actual threat, not yet.
And if you think governments inevitably expand and abuse their power, then you must believe that this fight is a useless and hopeless one, one you're doomed to lose. It's a nice line, but it doesn't fit with anything else you're trying to say.
They're collecting phone records of everyone. They say they haven't been collecting location data yet (I don't trust them, but we'll leave that aside for now) but a court just ruled that they are free to do so, so I expect they will start to if they haven't already. That violates my privacy even though it is technically legal.
Furthermore, collecting business records of everyone without a warrant requiring probable cause absolutely violates the spirit of the law they claim authorizes it, as evidenced by the authors of that very law saying so.
Your second paragraph is meaningless to the discussion, because what I, and others, are trying to do is raise awareness of the threats to convince others to act, which is something everyone is free to do on any subject.
Governments do inevitably push at the edges of everything they're allowed to do, which is why we have to keep enforcing and adding limitations as necessary to keep them from pushing out in new areas. It's not hopeless, as long as there are still independent branches of government that don't all work together on everything. Congress needs to establish firm limits and close the loopholes and twisted interpretations of law the executive branch continues to find and exploit.
They're not collecting everyone's phone records or location data at all times, that's absolutely untrue.
Can you provide a reason why collecting business records against the spirit of the law, or am I just supposed to take your word for it? Who, specifically, voted for and wrote the law that says this? What court agrees with them? There's a process in place for what you're talking about, and why hasn't that process been worked through?
You said, and I quote, "Because governments inevitably expand and abuse their power." If this is true, then there is nothing you can do to stop it (that's what the word inevitable means). Do you not think this is true?
You just take what you've read, and extrapolate it ten times over. It's making an open debate impossible. You're harming the process. Stop it.
It needs to be stopped now before they can abuse it.