Maybe it's time for a new Constitution amendment then. In a world where surveillance is so pervasive, and so potentially dangerous, the laws should be updated, if the old ones aren't sufficient to provide people the privacy they need in a democracy.
If there are egregious violations of privacy and freedom then we won't be seeing the admissions of guilt/reform, but instead we'll be seeing recriminations and diversions. There needs to be punitive measures in place to deter that kind of negligence and recklessness, in addition to the punishment for actual violations.
Rehabilitation and recidivism are very serious issues that need to be focused on, especially because those who disregard privacy will do so on an ideological level -- it's part of their personal belief system.
Seems to me there are a number of legal bugs where our laws fall apart at scale. The 2nd amendment is all well and good (my opinion) but arms tech scaled way beyond anything imaginable at the time and some line needed to be drawn on what qualified. Privacy law is having a similar issue as society shifts all its important data to digital storage and into third parties. Who could've imagined that centuries past?
As a programmer it makes me wonder what the common anti patterns of law are.