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> criminals will be able to operate with impunity at scale.

This isn't even remotely true. At some point criminals have to go actually commit crimes that leave a detectable impact in the real world. That is where they can be caught. There is no need to surveil the communication of everyone on the plant just to catch the small minority of people who commit crimes. The cost is not remotely worth the benefit.

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission would disagree with you, just as one example.

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They would disagree that the cost outweighs the benefit?

Of course, they are not the ones bearing the cost of having their privacy invaded despite doing nothing wrong. I'm talking about the cost/benefit to society as a whole, not one particular actor. We don't need to rearrange all of society to make life convenient for the SEC or any other single agency.

I'm sure it would also be convenient for law enforcement if they could conduct warrentless searches and detain suspects indefinitely without access to counsel, but you know there's a reason we don't allow that.