Here’s a million-dollar question. Do people know who can see, read, record and store the things they do online? This might not sound crazy but it is the government; they can do this by hacking into a device connected to the internet, and then they use that device to record and monitor the individual. Funny thing is that the director of the National Intelligence Agency James Clapper made a comment where he stated, “Even a new Barbie has the ability to spy on you – it listens to Barbie owners to respond but also sends what it hears back to the mothership at Mattel” (Timm). Mattel might not be the government, but if the government is working with companies like Samsung, Amazon, Microsoft, General Motors, and cellphone providers like …show more content…
The government is doing much more than racial profiling; they are breaking their citizen’s first amendment rights, which are basic born rights. The government is in a way harassing them due to their religion because terrorists are usually stereotypically associated with Islam. That goes against “The First Amendment [which] guarantees freedoms concerning religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition” (Cornell University Law School). Many Muslim Americans “censor themselves and avoid talking about politics or religion”, (Selod) because they feel like they are viewed as a threat. In a way, they are being oppressed by the government as well as may other people from different backgrounds and …show more content…
That is a very small percentage considering what you are giving up; so, the real question is, are Americans going to allow their government to keep spying on them just so that the can only get 1.8 percent of the cases started out of the thousands that they must have? The government already tries to narrow down who could be a terrorist by searching for keywords in which most of the times; the government does not get what they’re looking for. A good example of this is the person being interviewed by Michele Catalano from The Guardian, who got a visit from the counter terrorism police which told her that they “do this about 100 times a week. And that 99 of those visits turn out to be