[HitmanLV]

Privacy is important, of course.

I have no idea though if there are enough people to listen to everybody, though. At any given time there must be more people out in the population than are available to listen to all those people.

I wonder what would make a guy like me, for example, particularly interesting to listen to conversations in my car, in light of the fact that I am almost always alone in my car.

[freebilly]

I have no idea though if there are enough people to listen to everybody, though.

Well, now that over 60% of Americans work for some form of city, state, or federal government agency, I'd say we're getting close....

[Bob J]

They don't listen to everyone, just those on their list.

[aruanan]

At any given time there must be more people out in the population than are available to listen to all those people.

That's what computers are made for. They can monitor zillions of phone calls and conversations electronically, flagging the invaders of privacy when certain words, combinations of words, or frequency of certain words are detected.