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I like having the ability to speak openly about my feelings towards the government without being put on a watchlist regardless of where I am.

The government != moral authority.

It's very possible to do things the government wouldn't like without doing something that would be considered "amoral".

Is a right to privacy expected in public?

Regardless, the fact that there is a street light next to my house, almost over my property, which is most definitely not public, is very concerning.

Yes, people expect privacy when moving through their day in public, even though they may not expect it in an particular location. If they didn't expect that, stalking wouldn't be a concern.

This assumes that your morals are the same as whoever is behind the camera. You don't know that, which compromises the integrity of any moral value knowledge of being watched would have given.

It isn't about the content in which someone is recorded. It's about having consent to have someone record you.