You should always assume, that anything you put online - including sending emails, and any common thing you have handled for you for free...
Are visible to the world.
For certain, the government told you, they will be reading and searching anything and everything... connecting those dots. That's just to start.
For certain, other governments of the world, will be interested in understanding whatever it can by whatever means it may have.
For certain, companies work together to share information about "users" so that they can "cater" to them... in reality, it just means, in aggregate we are all making a lot of people a lot of money... just by being on the internet.
For certain, there are malicious people and software in the world that is taking what it can, and using it how it can.
With this knowledge, you can either shut yourself off - always imagine you're talking in public - or a mixture of both.
Now; regardless of how much or how little is happening, you should imagine the worst case - and be prepared to handle it.
People understand how to know things; and it works better than you can possibly imagine - I know, I was trained in how it works... I helped make it work... I watched it working.
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