No one want safe widespread solutions: we want to being able to spy both for bad and good reasons. The good part is simply justice: telecommunications are vital to anyone, criminals included, to a point that we do not want to limit them. But to catch criminals we still need a bit of surveillance power.
Unfortunately the very same power is interest for criminal itself to spy on their targets, any kind of criminal from the home thief that may like follow you to know when you go on holidays, what kind of safety you have at home (because yes, you post new shiny photos of your new home surveillance system, together with it's plan, photos of you and few technicians during the mounting phase etc), what you have in your house (because you post tons of photos/selfie with relevant "background") to your insurance company that buy with discretion your data from Amazon/Google/Microsoft/Apple, data recorded by voice assistant, smart devices with cameras everywhere, speaker mic of your phone etc (curiously in the past such kind of spying devices were buy, and they are very expensive, by people who want to spy on you. Today you buy them from the people willing to spying on you and also you pay connectivity and electricity form them) to your government that likes to know your political opinion and influence network like ancient est-German STASI or modern NSA/FBI/CIA/* do.
The real "safety" point is not safety itself but balance of power. A knife good to cut a succulent steak is also good to kill someone and perhaps to open a package. A car the same. A phone the same. etc. They are instruments with more or less effectiveness, comfort and power. If they are balanced so anyone have more or less the same power we have no real safety problem. If too few have too much power we have a problem, bigger as fewer and powerful counterparts are.
Unfortunately to proper balance power as a society we need also a certain level of awareness and civic sense distributed among us, because yes knowledge is power. At any level. Today's and not from today's we evolve in a more and more ignorant society with a more and more reduced élite that rules against tons of sheep.
Unfortunately the very same power is interest for criminal itself to spy on their targets, any kind of criminal from the home thief that may like follow you to know when you go on holidays, what kind of safety you have at home (because yes, you post new shiny photos of your new home surveillance system, together with it's plan, photos of you and few technicians during the mounting phase etc), what you have in your house (because you post tons of photos/selfie with relevant "background") to your insurance company that buy with discretion your data from Amazon/Google/Microsoft/Apple, data recorded by voice assistant, smart devices with cameras everywhere, speaker mic of your phone etc (curiously in the past such kind of spying devices were buy, and they are very expensive, by people who want to spy on you. Today you buy them from the people willing to spying on you and also you pay connectivity and electricity form them) to your government that likes to know your political opinion and influence network like ancient est-German STASI or modern NSA/FBI/CIA/* do.
The real "safety" point is not safety itself but balance of power. A knife good to cut a succulent steak is also good to kill someone and perhaps to open a package. A car the same. A phone the same. etc. They are instruments with more or less effectiveness, comfort and power. If they are balanced so anyone have more or less the same power we have no real safety problem. If too few have too much power we have a problem, bigger as fewer and powerful counterparts are.
Unfortunately to proper balance power as a society we need also a certain level of awareness and civic sense distributed among us, because yes knowledge is power. At any level. Today's and not from today's we evolve in a more and more ignorant society with a more and more reduced élite that rules against tons of sheep.