Afraid someone is watching you? They probably are.
In a computer system, anything that did once exist (all events and data) could be logged into a database and analyzed either now or later. This data could be used against you but it could also be used for good. How so? In making our software better! But what is the cost?
The more parts of our software that get "instrumented" (hooked up to log actions into a database), the more at risk we are for losing our privacy. And A LOT of the parts of our software are getting instrumented and hooked up to online databases. You could build your house into Fort Knox, but you need a data Fort Knox as well and things like "The Cloud" conflict and compete with that. Many companies today instrument their software in order to learn how people use their software. They use this data to make the software better; but there is a very big cost to this! This same data could be stolen or subpoenaed and used against you. Not exactly what you want.
In short, be very, very careful and very, very paranoid of what you're doing on your computer and online … they could be (and probably are) watching you!!! ; )
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