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Originally Posted by Rochard
I always gets blasted for this, but frankly.... I just don't care. If the US government wants to read my texts and my emails they can knock themselves out. There is just absolutely nothing of interest there.
And please don't tell me "this is what they said when the Nazis came to power". No, it isn't.
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You should read a book called "Three Felonies a Day." The idea behind it is that the average person can wake up, eat breakfast, go to work, put in their 8 hours, come home and spend the rest of their night relaxing and not realize that they potentially committed a federal crime that day. The reason is that there are so many laws on the books and over the years they have gotten so convoluted that just about anyone can be charged with a crime.
This doesn't mean that the cops are just going to draw your name out of a hat and one afternoon arrest you. They have better things to do. However, if something were to happen where you were involved in an incident where the authorities might investigate you then you could have problems. They start going through all these emails, messages phone records etc that they have been keeping on you and they can pick and choose stuff that might help them prove you are guilty of a crime.
You may have nothing to hide. Most of us are likely that way. That doesn't mean that you will never be involved in a situation where those things may eventually be taken out of context and used against you.