In her blog Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, Katherine Miller explains why she believes that we don’t have to worry about the NSA monitoring our communications. She believes that it is protecting us from future attacks. She doesn't think it will affect anyone as long as they don’t have anything to hide. There is no point in trying to stop it because the government has always spied and the information has to be stored in order to transmit it, so someone will have access to our information anyway. Last she points out that if you don’t want the NSA to read something you just can’t send it via electronic communication.
The NSA’s ability to monitor all of our electronic communications is not protecting America. Anyone attempting to attack us knows just as well as we do that their communications are being monitored and will find a way around it. Everyone has something to hide. It might not be that they’re terrorists but everyone has private information. That is why we are protected from illegal searches and seizures. Which, when we get right down to it , is a right that the NSA is taking away from us. We would not let the police go through our mail, why should we let the NSA go through our email. It is true that we can avoid giving private information via electronic communication but its not easy to do. In today's society we use electronic communication for everything including: where we are , what we are doing and who we are with. That’s a lot of information for a government to have on its citizenry and we have no guarantees on exactly how they are going to use it. Its also true that this information has to be stored but we originally had rights protecting us from people using that information. Now we don’t.
The NSA’s ability to monitor all of our communications is ineffective, it takes away the rights of american citizens and gives the government way too much power.
