That sucking sound you've been hearing all week

It has been not quite a decade since Scott McNealy (then of Sun Microsystems) told a crowd of reporters, "You have zero privacy; get over it." That sucking sound you've been hearing all week is what's left of your privacy and freedom, circling the drain. Monday the postman brought a "privacy policy" notice from Verizon, our internet service provider, that reveals this company has granted itself the permission to monitor everything that passes from my computers through their servers, on the sus