Point taken, but in many cases the exact same information available to the government is available to all of my friends and every random Joe. Most of my web and email communications, like those of many people, are protected by RSA encryption and the last I knew no government has yet enough computational power to efficiently break RSA. They can subpoena Google to get my emails but they could do that 10 years ago, too. Whereas before there was total information asymmetry between the government and its people (the government knew far more about the people than the people knew about each other or the government) the Internet has more or less obliterated that asymmetry. The government can take measures like installing backdoors (and of course I agree that this shouldn't happen) but overwhelmingly the tide is pointing in one direction: towards informational equality. In those cases where there is a serious attempt by the government to regain its foothold over our information, it's not consumer technology that's the problem it is legislative overreach.

If you think the internet has obliterated informational asymmetry you reallty haven't thought much about the issue - the internet and IT has literally revolutionized surveillance, transforming the states ability to keep tabs on an extremely limited set of high value targets into one where nearly every citizen is surveilled by state emchanisms many times per day. The Inyernet certainly doesn't give the public the ability to analyze all of the telephone calls out of the state department or anywhere close, just as one simple example.