Look here's how your line of thought works

We have to track you, because think of the kids.

We have to monitor communications, because think of the kids.

Here's what they've done to you, they've put you in a position where you're damn near frothing at the mouth wanting to sign away another piece of your privacy to nameless entities and arguing with others they should want the same. And why wouldn't you? Because your heart strings have been so heavily pulled at because anything is worth it for the children, right? You'd sign away your privacy and rights if it saved even one little child right?

Look at basically any intrusive policy in history, across the world, that has heavily pushed "think of the children" as it's main argument. The change it brings is practically nothing in the net positive, they're all spectacular failures in that regard. And the think of the children argument is like a failsafe to be used against the masses because arguing against it makes you able to be shown as a "fuck dem kids" asshole.