Waaaagh!

i've said this before - back when congress was considering clipper for chrissakes...
but i'll say it again

if you let someone listen in or read your correspondence then you can pretty much guarantee that that data will be shared with people outside the original purpose of the eavesdropping.

If the government tracks what websites i go to - then that data will not stay at the government - but will 'accidentally' end up in a private database somewhere. If they listen to my phonecalls, well, something like this can happen (except i'm not really having phonesex with any big hairy male army colonels... yet)

"They certainly didn't consent to having interceptions of their telephone sex conversations being passed around like some type of fraternity game," said Jonathon Turley, a constitutional law professor at George Washington University who has testified before Congress on the country's warrantless surveillance program.

Yes they did Prof. Turley - when they picked up the phone...

Welcome to George Bush's America... please use no more than 2 of the bills of rights when wiping, we're trying to conserve paper...