The Internet is a surveillance state
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/16/opinion/schneier-internet-surveillance/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
I kinda doubt this is news to any of my reader(s), but there is no privacy any more. Even if you want to live in a shack in the wilderness like the Unibomber that information is in a searchable database somewhere and while you might not have as detailed a profile as I do, if you want to travel you are going to have to leave digital foot prints (unless you are really just walking about, in which case your ability to travel is quite restricted). How spies, etc. get about is by creating what appear to be legitimate digital backgrounds; they are, in fact, part of the system. I think it would be easier today to create a fabricated identity, but it would require immense self control to never mix up your different identities and provide a path to connect them. Once anyone is under a microscope there is very little that can remain hidden for long.
And all this is legal!
