[Smokin' Joe]

What "secretly"?

There has been great expenditure of time and our money to sniff our nether regions by the government, and they have stated that intent.

I assume they are going to read, or at least can read whatever communications I have via any electronic device.

When a government claims dominion over your diet, your toilet, and the light bulbs in your house, any invasiveness which does not require them to be doctors is open, and they want the doctors to do the rest.

All that kept the Nazis and the Soviets form keeping such records and snooping at that level was the absence of the automated systems (computers) to carry out the task. We are far beyond their levels of snooping in most of the country.

[SunkenCiv]

IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation-Expanded Edition
http://www.amazon.com/IBM-Holocaust-Strategic-Alliance-Corporation-Expanded/dp/0914153277

[GOPJ]

All that kept the Nazis and the Soviets form keeping such records and snooping at that level was the absence of the automated systems...

You're right on this one...

[lbryce]

You know, IBM sold the Nazis a system in which to keep the trains to the concentration camps running efficiently. There was a book about it written in the 80’s and IBM admitted to it happening.