This particular article doesn't really bother me, but on a grander scale, security vs privacy has become a rather huge issue, and in cases like this, I think the most important thing to remember is this:
The Declaration of Independence wrote:
...that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed;
and also this:
Thomas Jefferson wrote:
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
and also this:
Thomas Jefferson wrote:
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?