Comment by fmajid
1 month ago
Traffic analysis by the government totally happens: https://lifehacker.com/how-cia-director-david-petraeuss-emai...
Now they probably don't care about you personally, but you'd be surprised how many people are connected indirectly to a person of interest. Google "Maher Arar" for the horrific consequences of false positives.
>you'd be surprised how many people are connected indirectly to a person of interest.
I get called "paranoid," often, but I'm being honest when responding to people requesting my phone number: "you don't want my number in your phone, because it'll associate you with people you probably don't want to be associated with" [see Five Eyes' 3-Degrees of Separation].