Analysis Of Visible M Ethics In A World Without Secrets By Peter Singer

The standards of what we want to keep private and what we want to make public are constantly evolving (Singer 426). Privacy is something we all as individuals love to have. When someone is invading our privacy, we feel angry and sometimes embarrassed. But how would you feel if you knew that the government is constantly invading our everyday privacy? In “Visible Man: Ethics in a World without Secrets” written by Peter Singer he focuses on the concepts of the transparency and personal privacy. Peter Singer is the Ira W. Decamp Professor of Bioethics and founder of the Centre for Human Bioethics. Throughout his essay singer deliberates the modern- day changes in surveillance technology and how these changes might modify our government as well

Privacy is the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. However, as citizens the government invades our privacy every day without some of us not even being aware of this. “Since 2001, the number of U.S government organizations involved in spying on our own citizens, both at home and abroad has grown rapidly. Every day, the National Security Agency intercepts 1.7 billion emails, phone calls, instant messages, bulletin- board postings, and other communications” (Singer 425). In my perspective, the government invading our everyday privacy life is not fair at all and as citizens we deserve the right to privacy. Many of these citizens are not even accused of any wrongdoing so why should the government be spying on them? According to the Fourth Amendment, every citizen has the right to privacy. The Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and requires any search warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause. Our right to privacy as citizens have been abused by the government simply because they want us to believe that we have the right to privacy but in reality, we do not because they are constantly hacking into our lives. In some cases, the government invades some citizens privacy to ensure safety like preventing terrorist attacks before happening. Moreover, the reality of it is that as citizens we should have the right to

I say this because no matter what we do the government will still have an upper hand when it comes to privacy. The government has more resources when it comes to spying over innocent citizens. I do believe that if we come together and protest our privacy rights as citizens we may succeed. But however, it will be extremely hard simply because the government can easily throw us in jail. There are some people that do find dirt on the government and release them to the public and they are called whistleblowers. But most of the time the government will throw those whistleblowers in jail simply because they are giving the public an open eye on what is really going on within the government. Furthermore, the new technologies created have the ability to affect the future of many citizens. As stated in the article, “New technology has made greater openness possible, but has this openness made us better off?” (Singer 426). As mentioned in singer’s article the new technology created allows citizens to spy on corporations and the government just from your phone or even a television but, those equipment’s are expensive, and many people cannot afford them. Therefore, this forces citizens to just accept the fact that they are being spied on. But in the government’s case new technology is better for them because now they can