You better believe the government thinks it has a greater right to privacy than any individual. Not only that, they have the law enforcement officers and the lawyers to back up that assertion.
When the government no longer fears its citizens, the citizens have become subjects, worthy only of being studied like a bug mounted on a pin, up on a board.
Liberty for all is a principle very much in peril, and there isn’t all that much liberty even for the few.
They are also one of the few entities with the ability to KILL.
At what point do the rest acknowledge we no longer have a Republic, but a police state, if not Oligarchy