Does this question really warrant the downvotes? I'm genuinely curious. Why not just answer it instead?

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I suspect you're getting downvoted because the phrasing of your question implies that you don't consider this type of surveillance to be a problem.