You're right. Welcome to serfdom.
Well, I have to say it is even worse than that. Given the reach of surveillance and hacking and other terrible things, when nation states targets individuals, the threat is real. I personally don't think I can really travel to USA, nor UK because I have opinions that basically deem these government institutions as being villains. But enough about that. I am confident that I am on some list somewhere, and yet I have done nothing wrong. I never forget that one time some random guy in an irc chat once asked me if I owned a firearm (iirc)and if I was a member of an organization. And the truth was ofc that I had none and weren't in any organization. I like playing Arma 3 (most fun game as multiplayer, but terrible game mechanics, and you can drive ground vehicles and fly helicopters and build bases), and one time, without me even really bringing up any issue at all, this one guy who at one point claimed to be working in the arms industry, suddenly had this urge to start having a personal conversation with me about something vague and talked about causing attention like ripples in the water, and other weird stuff, making me having to now wonder if playing on that one server flagged my other co players in some way. And later when this guy in what I thought was Californian accent (obviously a foreigner) sneaks up on me in this local park and says to me "Don't be scared!" as he passes by on his skateboard, I start to wonder if I ought to get a little paranoid or not.
In the proverbial" perfect world", I am sure I wouldn't be bothered by relying on others for my security, but as it stands today, there is literally nobody to trust the way I see it. Not the local government, certainly not foreign governments, not my browser maker, not even technologists that opine on the matter of the "internet of things", and not all the people that actually work with the design and implementation of anything to do with computers and/or networking and standards. I listened to US congress having a hearing not too long ago about their supposed claims of not being able to read off this one particular mobile phone in a criminal investigation (iirc, after this show and spectacle in that US congress hearing , later it turned out that a company managed to copy the content for the law enforcement), and seeing how a higher Apple representative basically happily bent over and acknowledged the suggestion of discussing the matter further with the committee after the hearing to help out, for me just made any public statements from Apple to the public about how they care about people privacy, now a moot point. Ofc, it should be pointed out that I don't own an Apple product. I don't even own a smart phone, as I have the impression that the new phones aren't very good security wise, and they seem to incorporate various features that acts like streaming user telemetry, which imo would be basically at odds with ones privacy needs.
I am also the kind of guy that repeatedly points out to others that people's notion of 'privacy' tend to be misunderstood. As, it ought to be obvious that the matter at hand would be foremost ones privacy needs, and not as 'a right' as such, which in any case would certainly be limited by the merit of making a definition of privacy, or, just with how the mere expectation of privacy is contested, by simply disallowing expectation of privacy in some arbitrary way.