I agree with King.
While it's outrageous that our elected (or appointed) officials can (by implication) spy on us, as JimH said, privacy disappeared a while back. That doesn't mean we give up the fight, but I think it's time we pick our battles.
In L.A. hospital staff routinely scan the medical charts of celebrity patients. This info, in excrutiating detail, is then sold to the tabloid press, who then First Amenment it in front of the world. Anything on the chart is fair game. You think you have more to fear from our incompetent, bloated bureaucracies monitoring our phone calls?
In one hospital, 50 people, doctors, nurses and techs, got an eyeful of Britney Spears private info. While some were reprimanded, NO ONE has been charged with anything, or even fired.
Anyone who has posted a resume on Monster, or personal details on Facebook, etc, can rest assured that criminal gangs are building a profile on them for future use. They use web crawlers to slowly but surely put the pieces of the puzzle together. Oh yeah, and your government is not allowed to, even when the profiles are uploaded from Syrian terrorist camps.
Anyone who has ever applied for a credit card, sent in a rebate form, subscribed to a single magazine, EVER, can rest assured that he or she has made a difference in this world. Companies are busy compiling lists of anyone, living or dead, in the hope that one day it can be used or sold. You think that a commercial buyer of personal data has to provide ANY proof on honest intent? Oh, please.
So yeah, Glynor, "EPIC FAIL". The failure, however, is our own. We've willingly traded our privacy for cheaper credit cards and easier background checks. And you're right, it WILL come back to bite us.