As the saying goes.. "to be forewarned is to be forearmed...

We should be a little paranoid, but our governments and their agencies are going to far and we are losing our civil liberties..

As an example; The UK, passed a law allowing councils to "tap" people's phones if they were suspected of illegal acts.. This was mainly in response to terrorist threats..

It seems , many councils have been using phone tappeing to spy on householders to get information relating to house extensions, council tax, benefit claims etc..

this is to me an abuse of the system..