> Can someone clear it up for me. Nobody can clear it up for you, except possibly someone who has knowledge of the top secret programs run by all the U.S. gove

> Can someone clear it up for me. Nobody can clear it up for you, except possibly someone who has knowledge of the top secret programs run by all the U.S. government agencies, by agencies of other governments, by commercial businesses, and possibly by sophisticated criminal organizations. Regarding only U.S. government surveillance, even the most informed citizen's knowledge is based on years-old incomplete reports of a subset of programs; nobody knows what was left out and what has changed, but we know that the NSA alone has maybe 40,000 employees and a $10 billion budget; that pays for a lot of surveillance. Remember that many other governments and businesses share their surveillance with the U.S.; if what you do is picked up by one, others may know too. In other words, assume that anything you do online, or on a computer or phone which collects user data, is swept up.