Our country is run by a bunch of self-serving crooks who couldn't run a frikkin bath let alone our country.
This recent debacle where they have all tried to cover up their expenses being made transparent is indicative of people who have no care for what's right or fair, their only care is for themselves and how much power / money they can grab off of us.
When it comes to matters of security, they are buffoons of the highest order as was recently evidenced by that whole raft of examples where they lost sensitive data by the bucket load .... I wouldn't trust this mob to do anything but deceive and steal from us.
And as for suggesting they wouldn't use this data improperly, well that's about as naive as it gets and is about as likely as Gary Glitter keeping his grubby little hands in his pocket if stuck in the middle of a primary school.
In the current climate that can be seen as a fair argument but when you look at industrial espionage alone you can find out most of what you want about someone and their lifestyle nowadays without digging deep.
The question I suppose should be do you feel safer for you and your family with or without this ability? Some people put more than enough info all over facebook to start credit fraud alone.
Choice is yours, anything I do that i class as important goes through a programme called PGP Desktop, as long as the other person is a trusted key holder they to can read my email. OK it is still a Corporate approved firm for encryption but at the end of the day even your snail mail can be read before you receive it if they wanted to.
It just depends how paranoid you become and how important you want to feel. I know i am far too low in the pecking order to be showing up on the important radar, and I would say about 98% of online traffic will never be looked at, they simply don't have the manpower.
