American political figures will argue that the purpose of government surveillance is to protect the rights of citizens and terminate anyone or anything threatening these institutions. But the modern era is in revolt against this notion, believing that watchful eyes are only putting a hinder to individual freedom rather than protecting it; Their main purpose being to accuse the innocent and excommunicate non-conformists. When citizens are caught in a national crisis, they’ll probably be in favor of government surveillance, seeing it as a tool with the goal of cracking down on terrorists. This instils the idea of a greater good at the cost of giving up the right to privacy. But is it worth it? On one hand, people shouldn’t be at the mercy
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It’s become the human connection to the globe and people have been encouraged to blindly broadcast their lives over the internet in order to be apart of this new era. To many people, it’s a separate reality detached from any real consequence but in fact it should be treated as quite the opposite. But every time a google search is made, a text is sent out or a status is updated, the computer in that hand of begins to do what is does best; collect and store data. Arguably a computer knows more about that person than that person knows about themselves. A smartphone is a person’s connection to the world, their own personal databank connected to an unlimited amount of information. By constantly relying on this technology, the human race has sacrificed their privacy in favor of …show more content…
No one should be coerced into sharing all their personal information. Sure, it seems righteous that we give up a few rights temporarily during a time of conflict in order to allow greater intelligence to be gathered. It serves a greater purpose. But after that, those rights should be handed back to the people, they should not be withheld or altered. You might be asked for your phone records, your bank records, then your travel records, hell, photos from your trip to Italy, interests and aspirations, soon little by little; privacy becomes nonexistent. To paint a dystopian future if we’re not careful, one day we’re going to wake up and realize that we don’t have any privacy rights left, at which point we are going to be left wondering, what the hell happened and where did we go
It’s become the human connection to the globe and people have been encouraged to blindly broadcast their lives over the internet in order to be apart of this new era. To many people, it’s a separate reality detached from any real consequence but in fact it should be treated as quite the opposite. But every time a google search is made, a text is sent out or a status is updated, the computer in that hand of begins to do what is does best; collect and store data. Arguably a computer knows more about that person than that person knows about themselves. A smartphone is a person’s connection to the world, their own personal databank connected to an unlimited amount of information. By constantly relying on this technology, the human race has sacrificed their privacy in favor of …show more content…
No one should be coerced into sharing all their personal information. Sure, it seems righteous that we give up a few rights temporarily during a time of conflict in order to allow greater intelligence to be gathered. It serves a greater purpose. But after that, those rights should be handed back to the people, they should not be withheld or altered. You might be asked for your phone records, your bank records, then your travel records, hell, photos from your trip to Italy, interests and aspirations, soon little by little; privacy becomes nonexistent. To paint a dystopian future if we’re not careful, one day we’re going to wake up and realize that we don’t have any privacy rights left, at which point we are going to be left wondering, what the hell happened and where did we go