In chapter 2.2 Sarah Baase explains how government agencies are invading our privacy by not obeying the Forth Amendment. Both the IRS and the FBI have access to huge databases filled with tons of personal information. Did you know every toll you pay collects personal information about you, like social security number, license plate; because of our advance technology the government can even tell how fast the driver was going through the toll. Also, government agencies are able to buy personal information from private information service companies; the information would be illegal for them to collect. In 2001, the USA PATRIOT Act lets the government collect information from financial institutions on any transactions that differ from a customer's usual patterns; but that’s not all they can check. New technologies now allow video surveillance to watch out every move, without us being told. As the Supreme Court of
Monday, November 12, 2007
2.2 Big Brother Is Watching You
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The government having access to personal information about people is a definite violation of our right to privacy, but it can bring about a decrease in crime. Unfortunately, the price we pay for protection is our freedom. As the government has more and more control over our lives, the more and more the government becomes authoritarian ("In an authoritarian form of government, citizens are subject to state authority in many aspects of their lives, including many matters that other political philosophies would see as erosion of civil liberties and freedom." (Wikipedia)). Our government professes to be a democracy, and yet we are stripped of our essential rights dayly as the government snoops through our personal business. Is there any way to prevent the government from abandoning what it stands for?
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