But IF THERE IS SURVEILLANCE, give access to the People to balance and check the power being given to government.
You don't check govt by giving it photo ops, you revoke and reclaim what your dumbass ceded to it. No more govt, no more access to give it either. Govt is a fiction, a non-natural non-sentient being, it, and its people on the clock, has no right to privacy. Especially noting govt is soley responsible for all murderous warfare in history.
Hard to disagree that folks have a right while in public, to make recordings of what they see and hear...
If there are property rights, it's said one holds ultimate negotiating right to own self, being, likeness, nature, etc within private area one owns. Yet to any degree some so called public area is not owned by no one but even tiniest notion by everyone, everyone may have own ultimate right within that space too. Therein sense becomes not default yes, but default no, a negotiable thing, excepting perhaps exigent attack whereby defense/recovery recording may apply. Natural law regarding surveilling people is clearly demonstrated by YouTubes of lots of people freaking out when being filmed "in public", thus that is in conflict and should be resolved. Some say camera is taking soul, not just some picture, taker being the devil. Etc. Don't be a dick taking pictures of harmless people without negotiating.
virus
Govt tracing app is propaganda to power grab tracking database, same for "reportable diagnosis" schemes. Govt doesn't need to know. Though you might want to know for yourself so you can self sequester, tell people around you, etc thus not being a dick. Were there an actual anonymous distributed contact reporting app, that didn't involve govcorp odds are by time it starts beeping, virus density will be high enough that you'd get it anyways. Though pursuant to not being a dick, people could want to self sequester, and inform people that they have been and are around.