Thanks to Edward Snowden, I now know that the U.S. National Security Agency is spying on me. It uses Google, Facebook, Verizon and other Internet and communications companies to collect vast amounts of digital information, no doubt including data about my e-mails, cellphone calls, and credit card usage.
I am not a United States citizen, so it's all perfectly legal. And, even if I were a US citizen, it is possible that a lot of information about me would have been swept up anyway, though it may not have been the direct target of the surveillance operation.
Should I be outraged at this intrusion on my privacy? Has the world of George Orwell's "1984" finally arrived, three decades late? Is Big Brother watching me?