I'd rather not have yet another way for the government to track my every move and communication. I do like the concept of having a single destination for commun

I'd rather not have yet another way for the government to track my every move and communication. I do like the concept of having a single destination for communication, regardless of my location, but I don't want the (US) government involved. I understand the sentiment here, but I wonder what the alternative is. (Letting Facebook track your every move and communication?) Given that the communication is going to take place over somebody's infrastructure, I'd much rather have whoever controls it be accountable to the public. It's in the public's interest to have a secure channel for communication (secure from everyone, including government agencies). The government is supposed to be our means of providing things that are in our interest. If it can't do that (or it won't do that without providing a back-door for its own domestic snooping), then we have a much more serious problem: a society which is a democracy in name only. I think this is a problem to be addressed, not an inevitability that we should be resigned to. What I'd really like is a way to receive physical mail at a single "address" no matter where I am. If I'm traveling, living in a place temporarily for short-term work, studying, whatever, I don't want to have to keep updating my mailing address with companies and a dozen government agencies. This would be great! It's a different problem, though: we're back in the realm of physical mail, rather than electronic communication.