One or two governments practicing these techniques only serves to inspire many more to do it covertly or overtly. Looking at the entire world, I feel it's sham

One or two governments practicing these techniques only serves to inspire many more to do it covertly or overtly. Looking at the entire world, I feel it's shameful that more time and effort is spent on building better surveillance and control systems than decentralized and privacy protecting (to the extent possible) systems. It's as if all our freedoms are slipping by, leaving either an illusion of having freedoms with no practical use or freedoms curbed by governments with no concern about the well being of people or the government's reputation. We've known about China and North Korea for a long time. Then we came to know about Five Eyes and Fourteen Eyes. It worries me that we may have One Hundred and Fifty Eyes in the next few decades (just a rough count of all countries minus a small percentage).