Yes, and we may all be disembodied brains living in vats inside a teapot. This is why I don't find such arguments very compelling for showing we should necessar

Yes, and we may all be disembodied brains living in vats inside a teapot. This is why I don't find such arguments very compelling for showing we should necessarily assume we are being surveilled. The same argument can be applied to situations that have nothing to do with the internet too. Those are certainly possible ways in which the surveillance could still be happening, because nothing is certain. But the argument is necessarily probabilistic (in the Bayesian sense) and not binary. So yes, I have to take this into account to determine my final risk, but there is no point in necessarily assuming I am being surveilled because then I might never do anything at all.