In this current day and age, people slowly start to forget the importance of privacy due to the influence of technology and social network on their lives. Many of these individual's personal information are logged in onto the internet for others to see. However, the user usually is the one in charge of how much information should be accessible by others. Thus maintaining the rights to privacy of the individual. Yet in some countries the government are committing act of scrutiny on their citizens through various ways to prevent acts of terror. Namely; interception of phone calls, buying user base information from tech companies and such. It is reasonable for the government to find efficient ways to investigate criminal activity for the purpose of national security. However, they …show more content…
The government seems to believe that spying on its citizen is an effective way to find criminals. However, the cause of this action outweighs the benefits because it is too risky and in some cases, can not be trusted. In the current status quo, organizations like the NSA and other intelligent agencies seem to be intercepting civilians private actions. Phone calls, E-mails, credit card information, and metro card can all be viewed by the government and used to investigate people's day to day action. By linking all these information together, the government can learn what an individual is doing, with who, where, and when. This on it's own might not seem as dangerous. However, perhaps a crime were committed and a person can coincidentally be present at the crime scene as pointed by all the data gathered. This person can be held liable or convicted a criminal even though they didn't do anything. The situation as such is an example of how data does not mean everything and displays that this method of securing national security is