In my opinion, big brother has too much freedom in invading our privacy. Even though wiretaps and bugs are sometimes needed to apprehend criminals, investigators abuse this many times. Instead of just listening in on conversations of the suspect, police have tapped into the trunk lines into hotels and listened to conversations of all the hotel guests who used the phone.
Is this right? I do not think so. Unless we are engaged in a conversation with a person we know is doing something illegal , what we say should reach no one elses ears except them. I do understand after 911 the Patriot Act was needed to improve our security but they need to be leaving the common people alone. We are becoming a paranoid society with the fact what we say at anytime could come back and haunt us.
People need to be confident their privacy will be upheld. I teach PE and Health and I totally agree with Gina Graham Scott when she says, "If people did not have privacy, they would have to wear their public face at all times. Doing this could be damaging to their psychological health." We need to be able to make comments without worrying about who will hear them and what could happen if they did.
People need their time without big brother watching over our shoulder.
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