Visa, MasterCharge, your bank, your supermarket (like those “Club member” discounts?) know more about you than the gummint ever will via (alleged) scanning of your junk e-mail! Outta sight, outta mind?
I have always assumed nothing on the internet is private, but the path to Google is exceedingly fast, and public. The saddest thing about the new America is the fear to speak freely. But we got over Hitler. We'll get over this.