Distirct assessment

Should digital privacy be an expectation in the 21^st century? “Privacy is an inherited human right”. This is completely correct but sadly in the digital world there is no such thing as absolute secrecy. Your data will be out there in the data stream and someone will see your random post or message. Yet knowing this why wouldn't you let law enforcement access your data? To those paranoid people who adamantly refuse to give your data which could save lives. You may think it’s impossible for your electronic device to collect some one else’s random data, you are so incorrect. You device could accidentally pick up some mega bits of data on a terrorist plot. So why would you refuse to give law enforcement the ability to save multiple lives for your own paranoid selfishness. Law enforcement can already get access to your data but why waste there precious time? Sadly in this world, every one life saved there is one that is not. If a person dies because you refused to help the police with giving access to your data, you have blood on your hands. Privacy may be a human right but on the web there are no secrets.

“When we lose our privacy we lose our liberty” The Eternal Value of Privacy stated this. The government already has access to our phone calls and our messages. The U.S Data Collection fact Sheet states “U.S officials acknowledge collecting domestic telephone records.” This means they know who, when, where, and how you are calling. ”James clapper the Director of National Intelligence has indirectly confirmed PRISM”. “PRISM” is a program that collects “audio and video chats” for large ISC’s (Internet Service Companies) like Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, and Google.

            Why would the government need this data? Clapper himself stated “that the telephone records allow analysts to observe patterns over time and “make connections to related terrorist activates”. “It is used to protect our nation from a wide variety of threats” this data saves lives and those people who keeps data to protect their “Sacred Privacy” will end up getting people hurt or killed. “The harder truth to accept is that we are moving into a digital reality where the assumption of observant” New times will result in changes. Technology is advancing and getting more dangerous. If exchanging privacy with Safety was a necessity for survival. Most likely people would pick the latter. It is better to be alive and safe while being embarrassed then dead.

            “Privacy protects us from abuses by that in power” If those in power would abuse you with this then justice will find them. Senator Dianne Feinstein is uncorrupt and stated that “The records can’t be accessed unless the government can show reasonable suspicion that they are relevant to terrorist activity” So you are safe from abuse with this information.

            Privacy should honestly not be expected at all. You may get a certain degree of  privacy but honestly you can’t keep secrets online. So do not post anything you will regret and you will be fine. Abuses of power is almost impossible. Even though you could have an embarrassing picture or post, who cares because eventually that shame will go away. The innocent blood on your hands if you withhold information that could save lives will never go away. So make the smart choice and don’t be a arrogant hoarder of data. Pass on anything that could save a life to law enforcement. It’s the 20^th century you things are changing and law enforcement itself can’t protect us we need to make the smart choice and help them save us.