The current privacy issues affecting our personal information are interesting and complex. The NSA has bypassed laws set up to ensure that our right to privacy is not violated without justification. I find this threatening and scary.
Our society is now faced with a new threat to freedom. The new threat is not terrorism but our own government and its ever increasing power. We are now in a forced position of compliance with these unconstitutional actions.
As citizens of this nation, we must take a step back and compare the decrease in privacy to the increase in national security. Is the diminishing of personal privacy justified to prevent further violence? Is there a compromise? Why should law abiding citizens be treated as suspects? There may not be answers to these questions.
One thing is certain. Life in America has and will continue to change, and I do not like the direction in which we are heading.