Journalists have long known that privacy is a myth. In that regard, the protections of the U.S. Constitution are convenient fictions. Unless you avoid any government involvement, from applying for a driver’s license to buying real estate. If you do any of that then the basics of your life are on file somewhere and accessible to someone, including (by hook or crook) journalists.
The Petraeus-Allen scandal also revealed the federal collection of email which the feds, admittedly, don’t have the resources to read every day but can search whenever they decide to “target” any American—ANY American— for any reason. And if you think you’re a law-abiding innocent, and therefore you won’t be bothered, just remember that you don’t get to make that decision.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Privacy is a myth by now, that for sure.
Unhappily so.