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if I leave my apartment in NY without any devices and transport myself exclusively with a metrocard paid for with cash, I can move myself across the entire city without being surveilled

I will however probably walk into at least one photo that gets posted publicly in the course of a day.

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If you think you can move through NYC unsurveiled, I have a bridge to sell you.

Surveillance by the police and government agencies is different and in some ways more restricted than surveillance by private companies, using social media inputs. It seems reasonable to assume that NYPD won't sell their surveillance camera data to third parties, but the legal restrictions on private companies seem much weaker -- if they exist at all.

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