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Larry Bodine, editor-in-chief of Lawyers.com, reports this is America, one nation under surveillance. Many of you have heard about government spying on U.S. citizens, but aren't worried about it, because you're not doing anything wrong. At least not yet. A lot of us start our day by checking our email and visiting websites in the morning. Whom you contact and where you visit is all monitored by the National Security Agency. No search warrant is required. When you call someone on a landline, both phone numbers and the time are recorded, but you may be cool with that. It may not bother you when you sending a friend a text to meet them for coffee. Whom and when you text is also monitored. As you drive to work or to shop, police license plate readers keep track of where you go and when you were there. It's possible to construct a complete map of where you travel -- before you've done something wrong. Some say that the art of letter writing is dead, but the Post Office doesn't think so. Computers take a photograph of every piece of paper mail. When you buy something with a credit card, a computer record is made of your exact location and what you bought. This is freely available to the authorities as a business record. On a beautiful day it's great to walk down the street. You may think you're doing nothing wrong, but security cameras record proof you were there, just in case. There's also round-the-clock orbital surveillance from outer space that can pick out individual people. And thanks to the GPS in your cell phone, the authorities know whether you've been to bar, or a mosque, or a gun range, or a political office. Again, no search warrant is necessary -- except in New Jersey. You may think you're doing nothing wrong. But a nasty neighbor, a business competitor or an angry co-worker might see you differently. When that happens you'll wish that the Fourth Amendment right to be free of unreasonable searches was enforced better. And like the song says: Every breath you take Every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take I'll be watching you For more information on your privacy rights, check out Lawyers.com.