You are not completely helpless when it comes to Internet security.  The AZModerate approach (Computers and Electronics category) to online security has 6 levels suggest a range of comfort levels from total to "don't use the bloody thing". 

Level 1 through Level 5 are the "For fun and profit" and are pretty much private sector levels.

Level 6, on the other hand, is the political "Nixon Regime Enemies list" level.  It is the NSA/CIA Web surfing profiling (tip of the iceberg - who knows what else) Patriot Act level. 
  
A passive site (one which does not ask you for data, which is most of them) would register minimal data, probably little more than your e-mail address (which can be used to ID you, of course), the site's URL (which of course can be used to reveal the type of site that you have visited and a date/time stamp.  Let us call this a "Hit File".  The NSA site has been exposed as such a site. (See cookies at Level 2 of Personal Computing and Security.)

A proactive site, on the other hand, would solicit your personal information (name, a password, telephone #, etc.) If you simply visited that site, but were not conversational with it, the data registered for you would be the same as for a passive site (see above).  VOA is an example of such a site.

Of course if you interact with the site by entering personal information, it would have to be recorded somewhere.  From a technical standpoint that would probably be in a separate file (let’s call it the “Second Door Stuff File”).  It does not make technical sense from a storage capacity standpoint to have space for that information in the "Hit File" when the vaaast majority of hits will be passive.  It would be a huge waste of precious storage capacity just to accommodate the small number of visitors to the site that actually enter into conversation.

Sooo..., the AG is probably collecting Hit Files, from which a “Hit Parade” of your excursions across the internet can easily be extracted.

This Internet surfing profiling by the snoopy Bush Regime is not a welcome revelation, but it is not a deep thrust into our privacy.

The Illegal Unwarranted sneaky peaks and wire taps by this super secret Bush Regime, on the other hand, are a deep thrust. 

And I don't want to see the scripted mechanical retort regurgitated by the Tin Men Bush apologists asking me "what freedom have I lost?".  The pertinent question is "What is being done with all of those collateral records on innocent loyal Americans that are being swept up in the dragnet??" 

That kind of information is hardly ever destroyed, and all too often because it is so readily available, other uses are found for it.  Our government and corporations absolutely cannot be trusted to handle the data in a secure and ethical way without strong oversight, which is not in place far more often than it is.  And that, my dear Bush apologist, is the privacy that has slipped through my (their) fingers.  And that is potentially a chip off of my freedom.  And that Pisses Me Off plenty!

This power is too dangerous, and should not be allowed.  One might even conclude that the American people should demand the impeachment of the whole Bush Regime for arrogant illegal activity dangerous to the health of our civil liberties in this Constitutional Democracy.