I think of it as a temporary asymmetry: the government sees us, but we can’t see the government. Just like corporations can see what we are doing, but we are not looking at what they are.

Eventually, information and visibility will be total, since the cost of producing it and distributing it are low. Then we’ll know when we are being wire tapped, by whom, and why. We just haven’t put the systems in place, yet, to make that happen. We are also strangely slow about demanding it.

Sort of like what’s happening with Flock: massive invasion of people’s privacy, but also an audit trail that has been revealing abuse on the side of the watchers. More of that audit trail, hopefully, to come.