But the thing is I have specific and quite well established legal defenses from the "goverment" spying on me......information the "goverment" obtains illegally for example can't be used to send me to jail.
Information used by some dude can ruin my life and I have little actual pro-active protections from them the way I do with the "government."
If the information is used in court I have a right to see it and see where they got it----there are some exceptions of course.
Then you have frequncy of abuse----how many peoples identies were stolen last year compard to the FED reading your e-mails illegally and trying to jail you?
Are you more likely to hit by a falling nickel iron metor or be hit by a drunk driver? Sure the falling rock is really dangerous----but the drunk driver can kill you too and there a lot more of them then falling chuncks of nickel iron.
In the States some adult faked a MySpace page and hounded and vulnerable teenage girl into killing herself---at the time they could not really even be brought up on charges because it doing something like that was not even a listed, on the books CRIME.
A reporter can print nearly anything they wish about me--and "absent malice"----by which I have to prove the reporter INTENDED it to hurt me, they MEANT to harm me....in many cases its not even actionable.
Lets take it even further-----its a crime to hack somes e-mail---its NOT a crime for a 3td party to publish information obtained in that manner on-line.
What would stop the "government" from just "using" information they got THAT way from locking you up?
In that case would my legal protections from THEM have been destroyed by the actions of a 3td party?
"hey we didn't spy on you--some hacker dumped your e-mails on line---on a public website---we read it THERE and now were going to lock you up.
If you assume that "government" would illegally spy on you---then you kinda have to assume that wouldn't balk at doing this either.
