Unfortunately, in the USA, if you ask the question directly, you will get a surprising amount of people who support our current government surveillance: 42% in

Unfortunately, in the USA, if you ask the question directly, you will get a surprising amount of people who support our current government surveillance: 42% in this 2015 Pew poll. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/05/29/what-americans-think-about-nsa-surveillance-national-security-and-privacy/ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/05/29/what-america... An interesting add-on to this is to poll about how one feels about Edward Snowden. The result is that the majority view him negatively. (http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/04/21/edward-snowden-unpopular-at-home-a-hero-abroad-poll-finds http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/04/21/edward-snowde... and http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/edward-snowden-rasmussen-poll-hero-russia/2016/09/23/id/749866/ http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/edward-snowden-rasmussen-po...) So unfortunately there is a pretty significant group of people that are okay with increased surveillance. Note that from what I see, this divide doesn't appear to be traditional US liberal/conservative. In fact, if anything, the divide carries more of a generational rift, where older people are more okay with surveillance than younger people are. (The USA Today poll on Snowden mentions this, and there is also this: http://www.people-press.org/2013/07/26/few-see-adequate-limits-on-nsa-surveillance-program/#age-and-views-of-civil-liberties-govt-surveillance http://www.people-press.org/2013/07/26/few-see-adequate-limi...) For those concerned with digital privacy and rights, I guess the question would be how to counter this narrative of fear that from my viewpoint drives these sort of opinions.