The problem is that constant surveillance of people makes exerting power over them trivial.
government monitoring people by itself is not a problem, government monitoring people to harm people is the problem.
What need to be fixed is the usage of tools to harm people, not the tool itself.
I thought the election of Trump would disabuse people of this idea that it’s smart to hand more and more power to central authorities. But at this point I think it’s hopeless. People just want the state to be Daddy, and assume or hope that its power will always be wielded by people they like against people they don’t.
Moreover, yes, other deeply awful weapons are also banned. Biological weapons and Chemical weapons are both widely banned by all decent countries in the world. Nuclear weapons should join this list. They almost did, during the Reagan era: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/ronald-...