I wonder if this will get noticed

Looking in my window right now.

Do you ever wonder if the things you write online or say on the phone are being picked up by the supercomputers of some super-secret agency, which then sends serious looking dudes in black outfits and night vision goggles out to your house to peer in your windows?

I do.

Reviewing a book about privacy, Ronald Bailey writes in The Wall Street Journal:

It's worth recalling the Pentagon's attempt to deploy Total Information Awareness, in which a gigantic data-mining enterprise would troll through commercial and government databases to generate data profiles of any American based on his credit-card purchases, travel itineraries, telephone records, email, medical histories and financial information.

Public outrage supposedly stopped the program, yet it turns out that the National Security Agency is building a huge data center in Utah that may well realize the earlier program's surveillance goals. Even now, according to a 2010 article in the Washington Post, "every day, collection systems at the National Security Agency intercept and store 1.7 billion e-mails, phone calls and other types of communications." 

News reports in July revealed that, in the past year alone, cellphone carriers responded to 1.3 million demands from law enforcement for subscriber records, including text messages and caller locations. Mr. Keizer asserts, rightly, that "the ultimate check on government as a whole is its inability to know everything about those it governs." State ignorance is its citizenry's bliss.

I'd just like to say to the smarty pants NSA that if you can find my keys I'd appreciate it.