State to 'spy' on every phone call, email and web search

Perhaps, instead of complaining about all of the people who will be seeing your information.. you should be asking yourself why you have an expectation of privacy in the first place. The internet is not a closed room. When you're talking on the phone, your message is traveling tens, hundreds, perhaps thousands of miles.. it takes some audacity to think that no one can (or should) have access to what you're saying. Likewise, the courts ruled not too long ago that it's not illegal for the police to put a tracker on your vehicle.. as there is no expectation of privacy as you drive around, despite the fact that they can track your whereabouts without making you aware of what they're doing (as they would if they followed you onto a deserted road).

If you use a service provided by another, it's not unexpected when they try to exert influence on how you use that service. Renting an apartment? They'll kick you out if you're smoking when you shouldn't be, or if you have a dog in a no-pets building.
 

shivibhanot

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And they will justify it by saying only the guilty have something to fear from this.

However the innocent too lose something: a small freedom to privacy in your own home. Although your calls may be innoccous, your internet usage right-thinking and moral and other monitored communication above board, there is still that small, nagging doubt that what you say or do is being monitored.

Just as an aside, you'll note it is electronic communication being monitored. Foil their dastardly plans by resorting to a fiendishly clever device- Handwritten letters.
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