It is not paranoia when someone is actually out to get you.

Searching google for "Abortion" is not going to have someone after you.

Having a miscarriage after you googled the word abortion will turn a tragic situation into an even worse one.

Returning to the topic of the article, how does DICT - a network protocol - makes a difference here? Are there any states where traffic gets recorded or queried for keywords? That seems like a huge privacy violation and would be a more interesting article.