For me, freedom is more of a feeling than anything else. I "feel" less freedom than I used to. Maybe that is because I've read enough to know that my (and your!) e-mails and phone calls have been put through the machine. No, I don't set off the red flags but I'm still in the system. I have to comply with increased invasion of privacy at airports and ferries even though it does little to protect anyone. I work at a financial institution and won't even go into the things we do with different databases since 9/11. I could go on.

Just knowing these things are happening is a loss of freedom to me.