http://www.infowars.com/articles/big..._manufa_1.html
If some people can't be bothered to follow the link, basically the Government (US or UK, I'm not sure. But if one of the two does it, I'm sure the other will follow suit or maybe they already have...) and computer manufacturers have been caught hardwiring key loggers into all new laptops.
Just incase you dont know what a key logger is (kinda simple), it's something that logs what keys you press on your keyboard and saves/sends them.
So basically, if you've recently bought a laptop and you don't like the idea of the government knowing exactly what you're typing, I suggest taking apart the laptop and looking for something that looks like this.
That would be the keylogger, logging every key you hit.