I guess that boils down to something of a cultural thing. Among the things they shove down the throats of young impressionable minds in school, chief among them

I guess that boils down to something of a cultural thing. Among the things they shove down the throats of young impressionable minds in school, chief among them is the fact that the Founding Fathers of the US fought for freedom from the British because of the evils of a government having too much control over the citizenry. How surveillance and data acquisition can turn into too much control is another conversation entirely, but it can be used for rather horrific purposes. The fact is we currently are not living in a brutal dictatorship where our freedoms are limited or none. However we do see some fairly regular evidence of authorities abusing their power, and again this issue is also another conversation entirely... Circling back to the my first point, we're taught that the country was founded on the principal of a limited government and many freedoms and guarantees, in fact founded with a supposed guarantee of it. Then you see things (ab)used for personal/political/whatever gain at the expense of those things promised to you. Now I don't know about you, but I don't like having things that I appreciate forcefully taken from me.