Why do we still accept that governments collect and snoop on our data ?
Summary
Talks of the Hollywood film about Edward Snowden and the movement to pardon the NSA whistleblower, which have renewed worldwide attention on the scope and substance of government surveillance programs. Though, the debate in the USA vs the debates in say the UK vary. The USA debate has been a very narrow one focusing on the rights of Americans under domestic law but blindsided to the privacy rights of millions of others affected by this surveillance. Whereas, the British debate solely focuses on those affected by the privacy rights. A British court held last week that British Intelligence agencies acted unlawfully by concealing bulk spying programs from the public for over a decade. In simple, this bulk surveillance by the Government is a violation of rights to privacy and freedom of expression.
Key Statistics
- European Convention on Human Rights, treaty ratified by 47 nations
- International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights, which the US ratified in 1992.
My Opinion
My opinion is simple; do we really know how much information the Government have and are collecting on us... NO! certainly not if we go on what this article says. The snooping that the Government does we did not even know about half of it... our privacy was being violated. Why should they be allowed to do this? The Government snooping on our data has not got them very far but it just is not right. Their snooping has gone as far as recording every single cell phone call into, out of and within at least two countries!!! and interception of data from Google and Yahoo user accounts. I do not know what else to say except this is not on!!!! We need to do something about it get some laws passed or something that stops them doing such things and sharing them with third parties.
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