"The Marina metadata application tracks a user's browser experience, and gathers contact information. So what this data does is it records anything a user does online, such as browsing history and websites visited, email activity, and even some account passwords. So basically this builds a picture of your life. A loss of expectation of privacy in communications is a loss of something personal and intimate and will have broader implications. This quote by Nat Hentoff explains that we are losing our personal information for the ‘ sake of safety’. But further along the line the government is going to want to continue searching through our private information. In a way i believe that this violates our amendments. In the Bill of rights the 4th amendments states : The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated unless of course there's probable cause. And lot of the times there is no probable cause, the government is just spying on innocent people. Taking away these simple rights is threatening. This invasion of privacy is actually an attack on the american people not cracking down on the bad people. So in conclusion privacy is more important than security. Although due to current happenings it does raise questions on why security wouldn't be our top priority. All the things we do requiring the internet are being recorded, listened to and collected. Privacy is one of our human rights and the government is taking it away. Its starts off by looking through little things such a phone calls but it will eventually turn into something else - something
"The Marina metadata application tracks a user's browser experience, and gathers contact information. So what this data does is it records anything a user does online, such as browsing history and websites visited, email activity, and even some account passwords. So basically this builds a picture of your life. A loss of expectation of privacy in communications is a loss of something personal and intimate and will have broader implications. This quote by Nat Hentoff explains that we are losing our personal information for the ‘ sake of safety’. But further along the line the government is going to want to continue searching through our private information. In a way i believe that this violates our amendments. In the Bill of rights the 4th amendments states : The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated unless of course there's probable cause. And lot of the times there is no probable cause, the government is just spying on innocent people. Taking away these simple rights is threatening. This invasion of privacy is actually an attack on the american people not cracking down on the bad people. So in conclusion privacy is more important than security. Although due to current happenings it does raise questions on why security wouldn't be our top priority. All the things we do requiring the internet are being recorded, listened to and collected. Privacy is one of our human rights and the government is taking it away. Its starts off by looking through little things such a phone calls but it will eventually turn into something else - something