FuturePundit: Government Total Recall On Past Communications.

Is Petabyte Storage and the supercomputer going to create the ultimate totalitarian state?  There is some discussion that Syria and Iran already do this….as does the US.  The NSA theoretically only trolls outside the ‘Homeland’ but how can you be sure…isn’t this a bit like th False in one, False in all assumption, Roman lawyers pulled out of their butts a couple of millennia ago.