Okay, title may be worded badly but I have a question;
After a while, i've been seeing people say things like "THE NSA SPIES ON AROUND 3 BILLION PEOPLE A DAY!" or some crap like that, or "The government has broken 5,000 privacy laws!" or other stuff like "the government looks through your e-mail AND TAKES ALL OF YOUR INFORMATION AWAY!"
my question is, how could people possibly know this? does the NSA just send e-mails like
"lol hey guess wat i kno u serched bananas and i hakked ur email l0l
hers the img u cliked on;

also we kno u looked up bananas penetrating oranges but well keep dat in our files lol
bye - nsa & guvrnment lulz"
either that or people just make up a random number
or, they do something that I could not comprehend to see what the government has done