While the hideous PATRIOT act was supposed to give law enforcement and investigative agencies the tools they needed to prevent another 9/11 attack, a review shows that it has many more uses. As pundits had predicted, PATRIOT is being used to spy on pretty much anyone suspected of anything, from drug crimes to thievery.

One particularly versatile provision of the Act allows the FBI to use Carnivore-like tools to determine what Web sites an Internet user visits and with whom they correspond via e-mail. Agents can conduct such surveillance without a wiretap order or search warrant, as long as they certify that the intercepted information would be useful to a criminal investigation -- regardless of whether the surveillance target is suspected of wrongdoing himself.

That means they could be watching you right now. And they probably know about that porn you were looking at last night while your wife was out shopping.