In the Catholic Church, confession is formally known as the Sacrament of Penance. The purpose of confession is to reconcile our self to God by confessing our sins, repenting of those same sins, paying penance for one's sins, and then to petition God for forgiveness of one's sins. Within this Sacrament, the priest is considered to represent Christ and thereby the confession itself is absolutely confidential, its contents not to be disclosed for any reason unless the penitent consents or assents to this for some particular cause. The Sacrament of Penance and the confession therein is ultimately between the penitent and God, with the priest representing the conduit for this confidential and its inviolable conversation of penitence and God's good grace.
Our National Security Agency (NSA) is neither God, nor a place of penitence, although the NSA has, in its own way, God-like powers of being able to listen into, or read, our most intimate, private, and confidential conversations both written , text, and spoken. Far from these private communications being held in the strictest confidence, the NSA uses this information for its own purposes and answers to the Department of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence. The NSA is not a rogue agency; its purposes and its data are authorized by Executive Order, in an obvious and unfortunate runaround of our Constitutional protections which have been violated.
The NSA intercepts Americans' phone calls, text messages, internet communications, web browsing activities, and then correlates and analyses this massive database. In order to perform these functions thoroughly and completely the NSA works hand-in-hand with phone service providers and internet service providers, who are only too happy to provide this data to the Government for a rich price, as long as they also have documentation that purports to show how their arms were twisted and thereby how they were compelled by law to store and provide said information to the NSA.
As always, our Government wants to assure us that this unprecedented government snooping and invasion of our privacy is for our own protection from enemies foreign and domestic. Some people actually believe this, others believe that they have nothing to hide, therefore they don't really care, and still others are always willing to sacrifice personal liberty for personal safety. There are a few, however, that recognize that when the Government has the power to compromise, expose, or to silence those that are inconvenient for its policies, while rewarding those that support or enhance their machinations, that our Government has morphed from one that once was a bastion of freedom into instead one of oppression.
Our Government would have us to believe that we should be in constant fear of our life, of our limb, of our family, of everything. The business of fear is a very good business for the Government, but this is merely a cover so that the Government can do its dirty business against us. My communications are for me and for my intended recipients, none other of this earth, other than God Himself. It's dirty business to invade another's person's privacy, their intimacies, their thoughts, their actions, and their dreams without invitation.
God will never violate your desire of free will and free thought, our government, however, makes it their policy and goal to do so.