They only care if you do something like blow up a building . Seriously I don ' t give a shit if they are watching me 24 hours a day . I hope they are because then they are watching the fucker who does want to fuck my day up because he thinks he ' s going to get 72 virgins . Clearly nothing is brewing except the altright white supremacists . Terrorists target government as much as people . They are protecting themselves from the nutjobs . At least they think they are . If only Thomas Mair had used the internet more , he would have probably been prevented from committing murder . The crucial bit you don ' t seem to realise is that it is not only data collection . Data collection on a massive scale is pointless on its own . Analysis is the crucial step . Without analysis we have white noise . Unless you are doing something that the analysis algorithms are designed to find , you remain in the white noise . Nobody cares that we are having this conversation . It is probably recorded somewhere in the USA , UK who knows what china is doing ? I don ' t care though . I don ' t care they they know what porn I watch or what weird videos I watch on youtube or that I use a torrent every now and again because I know they don ' t care either . I am nobody , I am not a threat , so i am nothing to the government . If I make a statement like Tonight I am going to detonate a bomb under the prime minister ' s car I will get flagged up . I know I will be flagged up for saying that on here . But its too late now . But I know that no police are going to appear at my door or black helicopters and I ' m not suddenly going to see people following me on the street . Why ? Because after that phrase pops up on some screen in Tempora a human will examine this and unflag it . I feel sorry for you if you have to live your life under such paranoia .