It's not really watching you, there is no agency. Your choices (cookies, registering as a user) create database entries or provide the data. The NSA, now, THEY are watching you. :-) -XC
I'd kind of like to know which NSA agent is watching at any one time. You know, since the cat is half out of the bag anyway. That way, I could kind of explain myself a little, or give a heads up, like, "Hey Jeff, I've been drinking a bit and I've been going through some stuff, so things are going to get a little weird." Or have people not watching everyone . . .
Well, at the end of the cold war, the STASI in East Germany employed about 1/3 of the population to spy on the other 2/3, so maybe "shovel ready" was Obama-code for that sort of program? But I agree that it would be cozier if we knew our watchers. -XC
You could always pull a elahi and just say, "You want to track me? Here you go F.B.I" Cut out the middle man.