Essay Against Government Surveillance

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In this paper, I argue against government surveillance advocates. In recent years, many whistleblowers revelations have making awareness of the government surveillance activities. The surveillance program has relinquished people’s privacy. Additionally, the activities that take place under the government surveillance program strikes, citizens over their rights-to-privacy. The surveillance is deposing the citizens' privacy and arise the concern of what the government intent is. Not-only-but-also, it violates the constitutional right of unreasonable search and seizure warrantlessly. The constitution protects people’s over government abuse of power and should be respected. Government surveillance advocates disagree. They believe the surveillance activities should remain unnoticed and undetected from citizens and foreigners, hence the word surveillance. The government cannot reveal every activity, especially of the protection matter to the public. Furthermore, the good of the nation comes the good of individuals. Considerably, if you have nothing to hide, therefore, you have nothing to fear. …show more content…

Privacy is the most fundamental right of human beings. They argue that privacy goes to the root of what it means to be a person because much like our mind, our confidential information that one has privilege to can be control to some extent. Privacy concerns have been classified into improper acquisition, improper use and privacy invasion. The insecure sense of being watched, it seems e-commerce and e-government services has become more pervasive than any past epoch of the nation history. The state avocation and private monopoly are collecting data on commonalities and end user, they claim that is to better serve them. The question that remains, however, whether these data collection is in the actual service of the people or just a means of social control where the state or corporation is in fact the ultimate beneficiary. In the released

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