How much Privacy do we have?

In this picture, the illustrator portrays that your emails are not safe from the government.  Uncle Sam is used to represent how the government has access to your personal computer files.  The illustrator uses ethos to appeal to the viewer in this picture.  He wants the viewer to feel that it is morally wrong for the government to have access to your private data.  I feel that the illustrator does a good job at representing his views in this picture.  The picture personally makes me feel that the government should not be allowed to do such a thing and that privacy is important enough to stand up for.  Does anybody else feel that it is wrong that the government can search though our private information or do people feel like it is justified?  Overall I feel that the illustrator gave a good example to express his views on this current topic in the world today.  This cartoon was draw in 1998, I wonder how the illustrator would feel about this topic in the current world which includes a higher risk of a terror attack.  The government/personal privacy relationship is a topic that can be viewed from completely different sides of the argument.  I wonder how this relationship will be in 13 more years.