It's worse than Room 641A. All US communications are currently being mined and stored by our gov. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center)

I'm not really sure how much good a VPN will do with this much surveillance. I feel it's only going to get worse. CCTVs feeding into said datacenters? Web, traffic, and dash cams? As long as the common man "has nothing to hide" they don't seem to care.