The Obama administration, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate using the Internet rather than by traditional phone services, according to officials familiar with the deliberations.

The F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, has argued that the bureau's ability to carry out court-approved eavesdropping on suspects is "going dark" as communications technology evolves, and since 2010 has pushed for a legal mandate requiring companies like Facebook and Google to build into their instant-messaging and other such systems a capacity to comply with wiretap orders. That proposal, however, bogged down amid concerns by other agencies, like the Commerce Department, about quashing Silicon Valley innovation.

From FDL:

The FBI's solution to its lack of total information awareness is to have every communications company in the world install surveillance software the FBI can access. Not surprisingly the business community was upset - not at the privacy invasion but at the money it would cost to install and maintain these systems. Technology startups would be particularly hard hit by this Orwell Tax by having to take capital out of research and development and put it into designing spyware. A turn key global surveillance system and who turns the key and why will often be secret information.

But then 'progressive' organizations like the ACLU are very selective in the types of rights they will fight for in the first place. Their position on the 2nd Amendment for instance, was long a total disgrace.

But then most right wing organizations are the same way.

isn't really fair.  Activist organizations - whether the ACLU or those on the right - have to satisfy their donor base if they want to continue existing.  Like it or not, a large portion of the ACLU's donor base has some level of antipathy towards guns and will not support an organization that militates for gun rights.  That same donor base is all in favor of bringing First Amendment cases (of all stripes and types), reproductive rights cases, and so on.  It's just the way it is.  Similarly, a large portion of (for example) the NRA's donor base thinks the ACLU is somewhere close to Satan incarnate.

If one were to take someone from either of those donor bases and parse out their opposition to the position advocated by the opposite side's organization (use the Socratic method!), at some point one will run headlong into a "but, but, but" (or harsher words) signalling the collision with cognitive dissonance.  Angry facial expressions, etc. come along, too.

Neither sides' supporters - all liberty-loving people - seem to really "get it" - their enemy is not the other side, but rather the government which is exploiting the division among liberty-loving people to steal the liberties from all.  Both sides would do well to cooperate with the other because it's in their interest to do so.

Of course, telling that to members of those donor bases is a good way to get run out of the chat room, blog, or meeting room.

It likes to use Quantum Cryptography

but it's fine snooping on even innocuous emails and telephone calls of ours.

But here's the thing. The technology that is giving the government access to some types of privacy will eventually make its way to the common person by hook or by crook.

The government doesn't want or like that.
Look for more and more repressive internet laws in the future. The government (and by government I mean administrations of our Demapublicans and the lifelong national security functionaries that stay in federal service despite changes of administration) does not want John and Jane Doe to be able to encrypt their messages or keep any secrets. The internet is still a threat to them and rather than try to coopt this threat they are going to increasingly criminalize all aspects of it.

Since, as proven by the past 2 administrations, the government openly violates the Constitution, there is nothing to stop them.