To an extent that would worry me. It's easy to imagine a greasy old man sitting half-naked in a darkened room literally reading all your emails on behalf of the government, but really it's not likely that any human eyes would actually read anything you do in private which takes a huge amount of the disturbing nature out of the argument for me.
That doesn't mean it isn't at all worrying. I always apply the rule of "if it's not okay in real life, it's not okay online either". If the government placed millions of secret microphones on streets and in people's homes to record their private conversations in real life, even if it never intended to listen to them, that would be wrong and illegal and it would scare me. If that analogy holds true for the online world (I honestly don't know if it holds true or not, I don't know much about this issue) then yes, it worries me.
How do you feel about the government surveying the internet?
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To an extent that would worry me. It's easy to imagine a greasy old man sitting half-naked in a darkened room literally reading all your emails on behalf of the government, but really it's not likely that any human eyes would actually read anything you do in private which takes a huge amount of the disturbing nature out of the argument for me.
That doesn't mean it isn't at all worrying. I always apply the rule of "if it's not okay in real life, it's not okay online either". If the government placed millions of secret microphones on streets and in people's homes to record their private conversations in real life, even if it never intended to listen to them, that would be wrong and illegal and it would scare me. If that analogy holds true for the online world (I honestly don't know if it holds true or not, I don't know much about this issue) then yes, it worries me.
In any case, do I take any precautions? Nope.