In Big Brother Britain it is increasingly likely that your suspicions are correct.
The Home Office has outlined controversial plans to require communications companies to retain details of the phone calls, text messages, emails and website visits
made by every one of us for a year.
All telecoms companies and internet service providers will be required by law to keep a record of every customer's personal communications, showing who they have contacted, when and where.
A total of 653 public bodies will be allowed access to the information, including police, local councils, the emergency services, the Financial Services Authority and prison governors.
Amid growing concern, ministers put back the Draconian plans until after the general election. But they insist they remain committed to them and campaign group Liberty said the delay simply "forestalls the fight".
Ironically, the announcement came only a day after the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall – the momentous event which swept away East Germany's very own paranoid Stasi-state.
The new Home Office snooping measures are said to be necessary to counter the terrorist threat. But this was exactly the same reason cited by ministers for passing the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), which was then used by council officers in Wyre to catch dog walkers allowing their pets to foul in public.
RIPA was also wheeled out by council chiefs at County Hall to check that their contract cleaners were working enough hours.
Civil liberty campaigners point out that the latest plan came despite a consultation showing that it has little public support.
The Home Office admitted that only one third of respondents to its six-month consultation supported the plan.
Coun Danny Gallagher, the leader of the Preston Liberal Democrats, said: "It's Big Brother rides again. What right have they got to intrude on our privacy? I want to know who is going to hold this information and who is going to safeguard it? We have of course had 9/11 but they are taking things to the extreme."
Ribble Valley Tory MP Nigel Evans said: "It's something to be incredibly worried about.
"If people thought that the Royal Mail were opening their letters, photocopying them and then storing them for a year, there would be outcry. This is tantamount to the same thing.
"Our antecedents fought two world wars to protect freedoms in our country and it seems those freedoms are being jeopardised by the very state which is there to protect us."
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