The Importance Of Privacy: Keeping Our Nation Protected

Keeping Our Nation Protected When most Americans feel as though their life is in danger, their automatic reaction is to call someone to save them. Since the first settlers stepped foot on the new world, citizens have relied on each other and the government to keep them protected. The United States has made it essential to ensure every American is protected from both imposing and homeland threats. Even though some feel as though it 's an invasion of their privacy, the government should go through all means necessary to keep this great nation protected. One of the main controversies concerning the government invading our privacy is body cameras for police officers. The body cameras are used, not only for the protection of the offices but …show more content…
In the end, the cameras wouldn 't really be considered an invasion of privacy if the community has nothing to hide.
The National Security Agency is a very important part in keeping the nation protected, but many Americans feel as though they invade the privacy of the citizens too much. The main objectives of the National Security Agency is information assurance, signals intelligence, research analysis, and secret communications. (Taylor). The National Security has certain objectives to try to keep the nation protected, but they also have certain limits to the things they can do. “... the men and women of the intelligence community, including the NSA, consistently follow protocols designed to protect the privacy of ordinary people” (Obama). Keeping the nation protected is a very important job for the government and the protocols can help citizens have more faith in the government. The NSA is not looking at your updated facebook status to see what you have been doing recently, they are trying to protect us from terrorists that threaten to attack our homeland. There are certain things that the government is not as