Private Thoughts

Government, it seems, are forever trying to increase its surveillance on citizens. Canada is the latest reported to be seeking better coverage with wiretaps and email intrusions.
For many, this news sends a quiver through them as they fear for loss of privacy. The big news is, you probably never really had privacy in the first place.
The good news is, the more ‘private’ information the greater their difficulty in managing it. To be sure, there is software capable of many powerful functions. A compilation of private data might indicate general trends, might flag potential misdeeds, might spoil the fun of careless pedophile groups, (we can only hope) but they do not serve well to pinpoint individual issues.
To find these individuals, computers scan voice and print data for key words. That approach assumes a great many things. It assumes that the baddies are incapable of modifying language. It assumes also, that the cheeky brats of the internet, once becoming aware of key words, won’t flood the system with them.
Overall, however, is the vision of a mass of stored data, creating a mountain of useless information. The more intense the surveillance, the greater your privacy is.