Well, I think there's a missing Venn diagram here.
If the ***/***/*** crowd can remotely activate phones & comps and start listening, then LOTS of stuff happens.
Religious confidentiality is only a subset. Medical, Legal, and X other types of confidentiality matter too.
Some of y'all have seen that whole Division by Zero math joke. So once you end up with 0=1 in your chain of premises, then anything else follows as it pleases you. This surveillance mess is the social version of all that.