exactly. it conditioned you to accept that submitting to and answering a bunch of invasive questions is totally acceptable, even happiness-inducing, in exchange for "safety", where safety is actually systemically guaranteed simply because very, very few are malevolent enough to attempt mass murder, or even just one murder. it plays on mental biases that more easily extrapolate imminent and colossal danger from rare incidents than vice versa.
sure, the invasiveness seems minor on an individual scale, but it's massive on a population one. power is more easily amassed in little morsels across grand scales than taken by force in large chunks.
