Should digital privacy
be an expectation in the 21st 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 20th 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.
