Some news reports have suggested that the Bush administration used the USA Patriot Act to look at the e-mails of American citizens without a warrant. What’s your position if this was indeed the case? Should citizens be willing to give up their privacy? Does it bother you to know that your online communications are very potentially semi-private instead of private?
I am both against this and for this. It definitely bothers me to know that anyone can potentially see all my conversations I have had with my friends and family, even though I have nothing to hide or anything, I don’t want the world to be able to see everything I am talking about. On the other hand though, events like 9.11 could easily be planned in the U.S. via email and no one would ever know about it if email was completely private. I would ultimately say that I would be against this act because it’s not just my privacy that would be given up but the millions of people that live in the U.S. as well. Email and the internet are such an integrated part of our everyday lives, to say that the things you write on the internet that you only mean for one or a couple of other people’s eyes can be read by the government without you even knowing about it is very invasive and I think they would have a hard time trying to convince the public of it.
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