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I don't see this the way you do because by your own statements you are lumping ALL surveillance into the big brother category. Not every type of surveillance is bad. I have cameras looking around my property. That isn't bad. I believe in private individuals being able to use security cameras in their homes and businesses because I believe in individual rights and I also believe in individuals being able to secure their property.

When government requires us to do it, or forces us to be under surveillance and there is no ability to say no, that's a different context. I am unsure why YOU cannot understand the difference between govt-enforced surveillance and private individuals using the same tech in their own homes and vehicles. Try not lumping all security things into one big bowl because they all don't belong together.

All I'm saying is that humans can be conditioned to accept almost any level of control. I see a nation of adults who spent their entire early adulthood skirting the rules, hazing each other, and getting away with stuff under the radar turning around and criminalizing the same behavior for their kids. I see a lot of hypocrites. As a kid, I swore to myself that I wouldn't turn into that. It scares me to see people my own age trying to make kids pay new and more serious consequences for the same kind of behavior they thought was so cool at the time. It scares me even more that most kids just lay down and take it.

I don't mean to attack you, and I do actually respect your different take on the subject. I am just scared of being one of the few that doesn't want government asserting itself into the parental role. I spent a lot of years waiting for freedom to blaze my own path. I don't intend to let it be decided by those who don't have respect for individualism and freedom. And when I see a nation of kids getting used to constant surveillence and tracking, it chills me to the bone.