>>No, I'm serious. What could I possibly have going on that I care whether someone hears or not? If I do have something, then I should be worried. Why care if there is a file? Build a huge pile of insepid stuff about my life. My real concern would be who's paying for this insepid pile of crap about my life. Probably me, and a couple million others. That would be the real crime.
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>Now that your security agencies are all operating on a worst-case-scenario basis, I think your confidence is misplaced.
>For instance, some of your phone calls and/or web accesses could cross with someone already being watched (6 degrees of separation and all that). So now they start watching you. And some more of your calls cross with others they are watching. They concoct a scenario where you're in league with these people (who you don't even know, because its not who you called that matters, but who else called them or they called) and one of them is indeed a sleeping terrorist.
>Suddenly they scoop you up and put you in some cell somewhere and you have no access to a lawyer, family, or anything.

That's good stuff for a Will Smith movie, or something on the Lifetime channel, but I think it's a very remote possibility, and sounding a bit paranoid to be honest.