Privacy is important to all of us. We all have things that we want to show or to brag about but we also have things that we would rather hide from others. You can say that those things are our secrets. Besides, not all secrets are bad. Some might just be embarrassing or too personal for us to reveal but what if some are really bad and can cause a lot of problems? And I am not talking about a tiny little problem, I’m talking about big serious problems that can be dangerous to all of us and the country itself. If that’s really going to happen then nobody would have known about it except for the government because normal citizens are not capable of spying and looking at other people’s personal information. In fact, spying on other’s personal information is illegal so that means you can’t actually do it if you’re not in any kind of agency. Not only that normal citizens don’t have access to spy on others but that also means they can’t expose anyone or anything which will not cause a single problem. I also can’t think of any reasons why the government would expose or reveal our secrets if they’re not a big concern to them.
Moreover, these surveillance acts were made to protect everyone. In fact, there are a few laws that support government surveillance and for example, one of the laws on surveillance is called “FISA”. FISA is shortened for The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and based on ACLU, it also states that “The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is the law that governs eavesdropping on agents of “foreign powers” within the United States, including suspected foreign terrorists.” That proves that these laws and government surveillance acts have the purpose to prevent and defend any kind of crimes that may happen either at anyplace or anytime. But on the other hand, Government Surveillance could be illegal too, if they are not being used properly. And considering they can be illegal too, I believe that when they used it in the wrong way, we can always find justice in many many ways because, at the end of the day, there’s only one truth even if there are many ways to prove it.
Above all of that, Government Surveillance does actually help to catch criminals and prevent some crimes. For example, the case of Najibullah Zazi who planned on bombing the subway in New York City but got arrested before he even had the opportunity to do it because the NSA tracked down the email that he sent to an al-Qaeda operative in Pakistan. Other than that, The Register UK has a full article on US Internet Surveillance and also includes a document about it. Its article states that “On page four, the document gives some examples of where the use of Section 702 has proven effective: gathering insights into the minds of high-level Middle Eastern government ministers; checking up on sanctions; identifying both terrorists and terrorist sympathizers and alerting other governments to them.” From the information above, I assume that the government spies in positive terms. And even if The Register UK’s article doesn’t support my opinion, it also doesn’t say that the whole Internet Surveillance thing is all bad. It only pointed out some good reasons why government surveillance is bad, which I totally understand because I know everyone has their own opinions and we all have the rights to say what’s on our minds.
Lastly, I think that the whole “Internet Surveillance” thing is not a big deal to normal people. I admit that some of our personal information is not entirely personal but it’s like exchanging privacy for our own protection which I think is not that bad for us, except that you’ve done something illegal then that’s another situation. I just want to say that if you don’t have any guilty illegal crimes, then you shouldn’t be worried about your privacy.
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