Big Brother

To all the paranoid of the United States:

Most of the people actually keeping tabs on you are young people getting paid a few cents look you up in online phone books and records and add your address and phone number to a database or spreadsheet such that those employing their services, along with others who pay them for the privilege, may engage in correspondence with you.

In other words, "Big Brother" is not the government* - it's the spam infrastructure.

* yet.