Government monitoring &quot;for your own good&quot; is pretty scary. We already have situations where people are attacked by the government or its agents because they did something that only harms themselves. For example [1]. Mass surveillance, if left unchecked, will eventually expand for whatever purposes the government wishes. Power is easy to incrementally grow (or in the case of the NSA, they simply ignore the laws) and very difficult to shrink again. We shouldn&#x27;t think that this wouldn&#x27;t be used against us sometime in the future and who can truly say that they never did anything harmless-but-illegal (take drugs? gambling? copyright infringement?) and as [1] shows, people have died for these &quot;crimes&quot;.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.ie&#x2F;search?q=sal+colusi&amp;oq=sal+colusi&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3.2235j0j4&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=91&amp;ie=UTF-8#q=sal+culosi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.ie&#x2F;search?q=sal+colusi&amp;oq=sal+colusi&amp;aqs=...</a>