People had always said, “be careful what you put on the Internet.” That had always kept me aware of what I post and what I do, but not till the point where I would suspect that the government would really invade in to our privacy. After watching “Spying on the Home Front,” it got me rethinking on what privacy really means. Innocent Americans all around are giving away personal and private information much easier than ever before with out a clue that they are being “watched.”
Using spy apparatus and data mining projects, the governments are able to search our information to detect suspicious patterns that may seem troubling or unusual to them. What happened to our individual rights on privacy? We have the right to be left alone by the government. We are allowing the government to break the 4th amendment by allowing them access to our personal data and invading our civil liberties. We did not sign up for this! Our private and personal lives are getting smaller and less protected. I believe that new safeguards and rules should be created.
As mentioned in a previous class discussion, our information is being sold to other companies, and other companies require a fee for us to access our own information. What has our world really got in to?