There was a time, way back when, that in order to complete a telephone call to someone else, that the call went through an actual switchboard with human operators, that would connect the call, and while there were rules and regulations in place, specifically forbidding these human operators from listening in on conversations, if they so desired, or if the opportunity was there to do so, they could listen in, and from time-to-time did listen in on those conversations. Fast forward to today's world, and your computer has an Internet Protocol (IP) address, used to identify your device on the network that it is communicating with via the internet. While it makes logical sense that each device has its own IP address, just as each phone has its own phone number, there isn't a good and valid reason why the IP address isn't encrypted specifically so that government agencies of all sorts, domestic or not, cannot track back to a specific IP address all of its activity.
If governments or corporations are allowed, explicitly or implicitly to monitor and keep track of the complete internet browsing of a given IP address and have the knowledge that connects that IP address to a business or to an individual or to a family, than your activity, all of your activity on the internet, can be traced back to the source. IP addresses that are not thoroughly encrypted permits policing agencies or corporations to eavesdrop and to record all activities of all interconnected citizens, whereas the Fourth Amendment to our Constitution clearly states that the people have the right to be secure from unreasonable searches, unless upon probable cause, supported by an affirmation, and particularly describing the place and things to be searched and seized. When that protection is ripped apart from the hands of the people, than the people, essentially when engaging with the internet, have no privacy, and have no rights, because all of their activity is captured, without regard to probable cause, all under the aegis of the day, which at this point, is national security.
It is vital that a national law be passed and executed, that encrypts IP addresses, but does allow a backdoor, under probable cause and with specific rules and regulations, to un-encrypt a specific IP address, under special circumstances, limited in that search to specific, tangible things and for a fixed amount of time, before it is reviewed after such time by an independent court of law to determine whether it should be renewed. In point of fact, technology has changed things, changed things in such a way, that information and conversations that are private and confidential from their inception, are considered instead to be fair game for governmental or corporations to capture for their own reasons. To do so, and to continue to do, is a disservice to the people of this country, that should be permitted to go about their business, in their own way, without meddling or monitoring by agencies which are not part and should not be party to their individual proclivities.
The government and corporations for that matter will always push the false flag, that these things are necessary in order to get to the bad guys, or for analysis, or to protect you, but in actuality, the real reason is to stifle civil protests, to find a criterion that compromises you, and thereby to control you to the dictates of the state and its adjutants.