content: I'm not sure why you got so many down-votes. You speak the truth. Google Instant and Facebook collect typed characters, even before you mash that "enter" button. Fuck, even modern word processors on platforms like MacOS save the document you are working on to the cloud as you type it, before you even bother to press "save". Likewise for that email service that runs in the web browser, and many forums even do this too! And if this information is traveling over the Internet, there's a good chance its going into a database in Utah, just in case the state ever needs to fish through it and find something to use against you.