Gov't Monitoring my computer?

All internet, email, cell phone and landline traffic is recorded as well as shop purchases and even PC printer printouts. The only thing that works in our favour is that TPTB are drowning in data and to 'some' extent lacking in the means to make sense of such data. Currently a computer is still no match for a human being in making judgements about collected data, this results in backlogs and a form of data triage.

So you may be paranoid, but your activity is still being recorded and stored in some rack somewhere.