You're probably overreacting. There's plenty of surveillance to go around, and it should concern you in an intellectual sort of way, but it should not create a

You're probably overreacting. There's plenty of surveillance to go around, and it should concern you in an intellectual sort of way, but it should not create a visceral reaction. In the large scheme of things, civil liberties are on the march. A century ago we did not have freedom of speech, women did not vote, sexual deviance was a criminal offense, blacks and Irish were effectively barred from participation in the live of society, trade unions were persecuted, and so on and so forth. We've made huge strides since those "good old days". People prefer to forget about all this out of shame for our past collective transgressions, but I find this is rather misguided - we should celebrate the progress being made and become emboldened by the clear success we've had so far in improving our lives. Telecom surveillance has been around for half a century now, it does not seem to have created significant new problems. Dragnet surveillance is a somewhat new thing, I'll grant you that. It's a bit concerning that a smaller group of people end up in a position of dramatic information asymmetry. But then, machine guns, the ultimate in the power imbalance between the state and the people, have been around since a century ago, and that ought to have been terrifying back then, but it turned out not a big deal in the long run. There are lots of checks and balances in the system. Our biggest enemies are despair and indifference. Which brings us back to you. By the looks of it, you are worrying yourself sick. Don't just sit there and ruminate, instead talk it through with a trusted friend or two (offline, of course). Ask if they think you need a beefy towline thrown your way, it helps in more ways than one.