While that is all true in practice, the actual legal documents yet state that it is our money, and our property, as well as the common sense of the payers who fund these endeavors through being taxed.

In truth the surveillers have no lawful leg to stand on to withhold surveillance data from us.

In present practice they do it because the state of technological progress yet enables the institutional money to retain monopolistic control of the data.

We don't have to let them.

In fact, it will soon be impossible to prevent us from having publicly available surveillance of government. Technology is going to keep shrinking the size of cameras that are able to be printed at home by the bucketload for pennies/bucket, and mesh networks and blockchain will make that data impossible to censor. It's just a matter of time and engineering. I reckon the sooner we get it done, the less blood will be shed before it happens, so I want it to happen asap. It will be the transition between the constant tyrannical imposition of slavery on mankind, and a new paradigm of freedom. That can't happen soon enough.