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For now. Just wait until sophisticated AI is developed...

yeh, time to use simple nokia phones again.

Time to use tin cans again.

Just be very careful not to do anything that might give them reason to "know" about you. Such as holding impermissible political views or knowing too much about computers, to pick two random examples.

It's a bit more Orwellian than that. The NSA claims it doesn't "collect" data until it looks at the data. Somehow the data magically appears in its databases, but it isn't collected.

If a tree falls in a forest etc.

These caches of information exist all over the place. While I'd prefer NDA/GCHQ to not slurp and store this stuff at least they have a duty to keep it secret. I am a lot more bothered by my ISP keeping that stuff. They're a lot less competant and have many fewer access controls.

Which access controls do they have and how do you know? And how is that consistent with Snowden leaking all those documents?