In addition to representatives of the authorities, ordinary residents are also subjected to wiretapping.
So, for example, a resident of New York Michelle Catalano and her husband, wanting to buy a pressure cooker and a backpack over the Internet, were victims of surveillance of special services. The seizure service arrived at the house and asked the couple to leave the house slowly, thereby greatly frightening them.
The reason for this behavior on the part of the special services was a terrorist attack in Boston, which happened a few months earlier. Terrorists made bombs using pressure cookers, and carried them to the place of the tragedy in backpacks.
And this case is not the only one that proves that any actions of a person can easily be tracked by special units.

All antiterrorist methods, which, in fact, must be properly coordinated, are very disorderly. And under surveillance very often fall innocent people.
According to Edward Snowden, there are many programs designed to track people. One of the most famous is "Prism", which cooperates with such well-known computer companies as Microsoft, Google and Facebook, mobile communication operators.
They listen to conversations, read correspondence, view photos, videos and inquiries on the Internet of any person who uses it. In other words, almost every inhabitant of the planet gets caught in the shadow.
Even turning off the phone or computer, special programs allow them to be included remotely and monitor any movements of a person, record his conversations and actions.
To get away from such surveillance is possible only by taking the battery out of the phone. But, for example, a popular phone like the iPhone does not have such a feature.
Public organization EPIC has learned that the NSA has created a list of special words for surveillance.
Having hammered the request into Google "Office of Drug Enforcement", the BMS automatically brings a person to the list of those who trade them, and begins to pay special attention to all his actions on the Internet.

Having asked in the chat the question: "Where can I buy Nurofen without a prescription?", You can easily get into the list of potential drug addicts.
Being the most innocuous person in the world, that employee, who wants to reveal the intruder in you, will do it.
If you want, you can find fault with anything. So the question arises: what to do to avoid surveillance?
What exactly you should not do is throw out the phone and computer from the sixth floor.
It is necessary to try to monitor your behavior on the Internet: what pages you are viewing, to whom and what you are writing about, what files you download.
Of course, you can install special programs, encrypt personal data, visit the Internet under anonymous profiles, but, perhaps, this will attract attention of special services to you.
Even the most professional hackers fell into the hands of special services, despite their codes and codes.
By the way, an interesting fact. One day, Edward Snowden asked Russian President Vladimir Putin about whether the Russian special services are monitoring their residents. The president's response was negative.

All Russian services are under the control of the state, and no one will allow them to conduct disorderly surveillance in the country.