We are long down the slippery slope.. the constitution are mere guidelines. Had Assange been less known he would have been made permanently unknown. Given the billions of dollars spent on IT by our govt it is unbelievable that they do not enable tracking mechanism and access alarms on all of their documents and systems. An Aussie firm readnotify.com can tell when, where and what page of an email or pdf you have opened, read, printed with full geolocation. If you forward the message they can track all recipients. We are not even talking a significant volume of records.