content: Well put. I absolutely can't wrap my head around the conundrum. Though it has to be noted, governments typically can pull up a lot of data not available in the public domain easily (passport, bank transactions, school records, etc.). And that is not in the hands of the individual. Which leads me to wonder the need for such sweeping surveillance, this attack on the vestiges of what we consider individual privacy. The other issue, is of course, admissibility of such information in a court of law. All this further exacerbated by the widely varying, and sometimes absent, lack of cyber-laws across the globe.