Government Surveillance and How Citizens Have No Privacy

“Where to Draw the Line” is written by, Macleans. This article is about how the US Government and other worldwide governments are able to use different programs to do their government surveillance and how this impacts the average citizens level of privacy. People do not realize how little privacy they have anymore and how they have handed over their rights to have personal privacy. It is because of the way the government explains their reasoning for needing to look into any program at any time when they want. President Obama states "You can't have 100 per cent security and also then have 100 per cent privacy and zero inconvenience." With this being said people agreed and approved without realizing they are allowing access into their daily personal life’s with no boundaries of being watched or listened in on. They showed documents given by Edwin Snowden, a former U.S. National Security Administration (NSA) contractor, who gave proof to the Washington Post and the Guardian newspapers that the Government had a Electronic Surveillance Program called “Prism”. This program had access to Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo, Skype and Microsoft servers. This means they can access any information about anyone, including knowing what they were doing, where they were going, bank accounts, or even using camera systems to watch what they were doing at that exact moment. This access allows them to search and find terrorist or terroristic plots around the world. The question though is what stops them from using it for other reasons without your approval. So the argument was, who monitors that this access is used for and only for National Security. The government states it is being monitored for that reason and that reason only but yet with no proof of who does it and is there 100 percent confirmation nothing will be leaked. The people are granting the government this power and but they are failing to realize what this power grants. As stated in the article, “these powers are not...