Basically, how tight and how wide is the degree to which LE/the government monitor our online activities? Which ones are and which ones aren't they unable to watch? Can they see and look at, say, chat conversations in some program? Could they listen in to conversations going on in a Teamspeak server? Does the government monitor these kinds of things as a way of trying to find suspects?
I have these questions because I see some Twitter accounts with say 25,000 followers where the guys are tweeting pictures of bagged coke, or take pictures with pounds of weed where their face is clearly showing.
I'm just not that great with all aspects of technology, and I can't tell whether some of the fears I have are a result of me having seen shit on television. I can't tell if it's absurd, but I'm constantly operating under the suspicion I basically have police officers looking over my shoulder whenever it pleases.
Anyone care comment?
Your worst fears are probably true:
NSA records the audio for ALL calls in a certain foreign country:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140318/11035826614/nsa-has-capability-to-record-store-all-foreign-phone-calls-certain-countries.shtml
NSA spies on people in online games:
http://www.propublica.org/article/world-of-spycraft-intelligence-agencies-spied-in-online-games
NSA giant data center:
http://www.wired.com/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
If you want to have a private conversation online, you must use encryption.
If you want to stay anonymous online, you must use something like Tor or i2p.