I recommend to people who ask my security advice to not have intelligence agencies in their personal threat models because it only encourages them and they need

I recommend to people who ask my security advice to not have intelligence agencies in their personal threat models because it only encourages them and they need the budget justification. Working in cybersecurity for a couple of decades, lots of people have stories like these. There was even some speculation from one person that they keep people under surveillance just as training targets even when there is no intelligence value. The whole enterprise is pernicious, but apparently it's the price of civilization. As an antidote to the paranoia for others, consider the sort of person who has to do this kind of thing as a job and whether they are the sort of person whose opinion you value.