Don’t be silly. Government surveillance isn’t for the protection of the people, it’s for the protection of the government.

Has the NSA ever caught a terrorist with their massively invasive privacy violating programs, spending the money on that instead of making people better to not become terrorists? Ask the NSA, they’ll tell you they haven’t stopped a single one.

Government surveillance is in service to these people, why else would they care about the privacy and consent of adults in their free time?