Government Threats

Government and Private Surveillance Growing Threat to Americans

This article focuses on Americans rights to privacy and how they might be taken away due to the government. The fourth amendment states, “The right of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall no be violated”, this is the kind of nation our founders envisioned, but this is being battered everyday. The government is nonchalantly stalking our every move. Every time we use our computers, phones, or tablets it is tracked, along with what we use them for. Thanks to revelations by whistle-blower Edward Snowden, we know this U.S. spy agency employs a “collect it all” strategy when gathering information on our personal cellphone and online activities. Since 9/11, the NSA has used secret contracts with telecommunication giants and covert splicing into their communication cables to intercept Internet and cellphone information on hundreds of millions of Americans and foreigners who are not terrorist or criminal suspects. For the most part people think this is a good way to keep our country safe but others agree that it has gone to far. People should be allowed to search what they please on the Internet without being watched. The government noting everything we do is a threat to us because it is questioning our rights to live in peace.

http://www.buffalonews.com/opinion/viewpoints/the-end-of-privacy-government-and-private-surveillance-pose-a-growing-threat-to-americans-20140510

Brooke Berryhill