I hope that this won’t be a surprise to the reader, but a whole generation has grown up in which lying, deception, and manipulation are just part of the game; a generation where too many people think that responding to a question with, “That depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is” under oath is a sign of cleverness.
– Clayton Cramer (in his article What Clayton Cramer Saw and (Nearly) Everyone Else Missed for History News Network yesterday, about the Michael Bellesiles affair – link via Instapundit)

Intrusion of privacy can be done by more that the government.