This domestic spying is bulls*it! One of the reasons I use Firefox browser instead of MS Intenet Explorer. Another good program to have is TOR. It can be found here http://tor.eff.org/ I use it in conjuction with Privoxy found here http://www.privoxy.org/ These programs allow you to hide your IP address most effectively but it slows down your browsing somewhat. You are able to switch them on and off at your discretion. I usually don't look at sites that are "questionable", but with all the crap going on, it doesn't hurt to have these programs, when you are going to be surfing questionable websites. And questionable encompasses quite a bit. For instance, the NSA recently was putting cookies that didn't expire for years on peoples computers. My thought is if a website can put cookies on your computer, it can easily put other crap that you didn't think it could on your computer that could get you in trouble