Simple, Because of "out of sight, out of mind". The US government probably records and stores every single telephone conversation in the US, emails, Internet c

Simple, Because of "out of sight, out of mind". The US government probably records and stores every single telephone conversation in the US, emails, Internet connections IPs and GPS mobile coordinates. Why?, because they can, as it is now ultra cheap, now hundreds of thousands of conversations could be stored on a single hard drive. With GPS coordinates or Internet logs it is even cheaper. It is also very useful, the same way drones are starting to record everything and after a bombing they could replay and follow the bomber, you could "replay" all the conversations that someone the US gov is interested in did in the past, where this person went, whom he met with and so. It also gives absolute power to people in govertment, uncontrolled. People can't see it because it is being so gradually enforced onto them and as it is secret people can't really see it. Like in "the life of others" film(in witch the main character gets shocked when he sees all the info they had over him) people is completely ignorant of what the gov does. Today, just with facebook alone you are giving the government more info about you that the STASI did had over their citizens. I for one believe the govs should have access to this information, but only in a way that is controlled by the people, or democracy will evolve in Tyranny.