Are They Watching You? That’s a Secret

March 4 (Bloomberg) -- Think Big Brother is tapping yourphone and reading your e-mail? Want to go to court and make thegovernment prove its surveillance program is constitutional?Well, you can’t, according to the U.S. Supreme Court’s recentruling, because you can’t say for sure that your privacy hasbeen breached.

In case this Catch-22 doesn’t bother you enough, there’smore. The court on Feb. 26 decided not to hear complaintsinvolving the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as amendedin 2008. That law says the government can intercept anycommunication between the U.S. and any non-U.S. citizen abroadprovided its purpose is to obtain foreign intelligence (duh) andit uses generic procedures to minimize privacy intrusion --procedures that we are (surprise) not allowed to know.