IMO, I don’t any unusual activity people are experiencing has anything to do with additional monitor citizen activity, the Government can already do that...
If you are on the Public Internet and use a cell phone or landline, they government knows everything about you if they really want to...
The way I see it, your only choices are to completely get off the internet and don’t use a phone, unless it’s a burner type of phone and I’m not sure how secure that is...
If you are willing to take a risk, get a new laptop, install TOR and use the Dark Web....
No need for any changes to your existing PC or to get a second PC to use TOR much safer. I built an independent isolated bootable USB TOR stick using Linux installed on it as a full read and write OS along with the TOR browser. You just have to make sure that the internal drive cannot be mounted at all when using the stick. This stick will then be seen as a stand alone PC and the only drive on the system. It is a whole system in it’s self and just borrows the hardware. So if anything happens it can only happen to the independent isolated stick.