Mass surveillance will not work because various kinds of warrantless surveillance the government uses undermine privacy, causing a tension between the target groups and the government. As a necessary part of human rights, privacy allows individuals to live free and gives them a powerful feeling, which is essential to security and satisfaction. With privacy, people have their right to prevent their lives from being intruded by others. However, as the frequency of threats to U.S. national security has increased since the late 1700s, the balance between privacy and security has become ever more volatile (Soma et al. 285). For instance, during the 1940s and 1950s, the FBI ran COINTELPRO to implemented widespread surveillance on Americans by using
