Why can't we just give up several rights and insanely powering information to NSA and blindly hope that they will do "the right thing" with it with no transpare

Why can't we just give up several rights and insanely powering information to NSA and blindly hope that they will do "the right thing" with it with no transparency? I really hope this is a minority opinion. I would also like to remind people that a lot of services are hosted in the USA and the world at large is also affected by this... The rest of the world should definitely not "just trust" the NSA.