It's never a bad idea taking small steps with such changes. Once transparency is in place, it'll be much easier to argue for stopping the practice altogether.
As a sidenote, think about how efficient copyright advocates have been with this strategy: slowly pushing through seemingly innocent changes.
In principal I agree, transparency is essential to political and social debate.
However, in this case we are not dealing with business law or economic policy and such. We're dealing with something insidious and socially toxic. To me the correct course is to outright object to mass personal surveillance from the outset. We should not allow tyranny to edge its way into our society, it should be stamped out and named to be the rotten cancer that it is.
As a sidenote, think about how efficient copyright advocates have been with this strategy: slowly pushing through seemingly innocent changes.