Being listened to? Yes, and just as your cartoon above says, ever since we as humans have been communicating with each other. The government used to read people's snail mail, and since wireless is the easiest to intercept, everyone now has a file on them somewhere.
I was glad to see, the EFF has more than a half million signatures already, I hope they get many millions. Although I really do not believe that anything will make them stop what they are doing, other than Y'shua Messiah when he returns and takes the trash out for us.