Ex AT&T Tech Says NSA Monitors All Web Traffic

I heard about this yesterday. This morning there were reports of credit card companies turning over records to the NSA regarding grocery purchases in "middle eastern" neighborhoods.

The legality of this is up in the air, but how to you feel about it "morally/ethically?"

I'm torn because on one hand I don't like being "spied" on. On the other hand do we even have a right to privacy regarding stuff we do "publicly?" Do we just have to accept that we are putting information out into the world for God knows who to see when we use the internet? The person who owns the website can see you were there. Countless thousands of people administer the systems it takes for your information to get around. Your ISP can tell exactly what you're doing. Is it really the end of the world if a couple more people see the data you generated? I mean, I get that it's the principal of the matter, but still.

Secondly, is that even your information to begin with? Nutcan.com, like virtually every website, logs every page hit. We see everything you do here. Is that really "your" information, or are we free to do what we want with it? As such you are paying a company to give you access to the Internet, if they track what you do isn't that their information to give to whom ever they want? You might not like it, but you are free to use another service then.
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