How Private are our Lives Actually?

There are terrorist organizations and groups that’s sole purpose is to attack the USA. There is no doubt that the US government is doing everything they can to protect the citizens from terrorist attacks. The debate however is about how can the government protect the American people without violating the Constitution and privacy rights that are bestowed upon every single US citizen. I believe that every person in the US understands or at least should learn to understand that technology is growing to become more and more intelligent and sophisticated everyday. This is why it is important that we as a whole nation start to begin a discussion on how we can protect our privacy rights with the growing technology. How can we protect our nation against both foreign and domestic attacks, while at the same time protect our constitutional freedom and privacy rights?

What is crazy to think is that the NSA and other government organizations have large amounts of information on every single person. People are learning that the government is collecting phone call information including who is calling each other, the location of both people, the time in which the call was made, and how long the phone call took place. That is just insane. Is there really any privacy at all anymore? You can’t do anything now a day without someone knows what you are doing. Text messages, Internet browsing, and emails can all be recorded. What is even crazier that I recently just discovered is that someone can pinpoint your location within a few feet using apps such as Google Maps.

There is without a doubt even more going on then what I have been able to learn. Local agencies, and governments I bet are also collecting information about the habits of people. Like in the UK for example, there are cameras everywhere that can take pictures of your license plate, yourself, and where you are going. The government can know where you are, where you are going, and how long it took you to get to your destination.

Even though I have been mainly focusing on the government and how what they have been doing is questionable, there are also private companies and organizations that are also collecting a plethora of information form people. They know an extremely large amount about what we do. These companies can know what we read, what we email, and even what websites we are visiting. And that is just what we think we know. There could be and infinite amount of information that they have about us that we have no idea about. This is how our privacy is being damaged. If someone can access your purchasing records, phone calls, emails, and even tract our location, then basically everything that someone does can be known.