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The Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution would seem to disagree.

Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution protects only U.S. citizens inside U.S.

NSA is allowed to collect any information about non-U.S. citizens outside U.S. and there are some limitations to collection of information about U.S. citizens outside U.S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveilla...

I wasn't replying to a question of jurisdiction. It was a statement that surveillance is fine until there's personal gain involved. That is not consistent with the text or intent of the amendment. Other countries also have rights protected against unreasonable searches and seizures. Some even explicitly protect privacy.

The US Constitution applies to people in the US, by the way, not just citizens.

I think that's a fair statment, although I don’t necessarily see the Fourth Amendment as disagreeing with my point. If anything, it reflects the idea that surveillance itself isn't automatically harmful, but that there needs to be a limit on how and when it can be used. My post was certainly too broad, but I was more getting at the idea that the problem comes from what people or institutions choose to do with the power surveillance gives them.

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