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Essay / The Right to Privacy - 1254
Privacy Laws - ForPrivacy laws are established because people have a right to privacy, to a certain extent. For many years, people have argued about their privacy rights, whether it's about online videos, people spying on them, or even people stealing the Internet. People think they should be completely isolated from others to see what they are doing, but in reality, there is nothing stopping people from seeing what you are doing. As more and more people exploit the flaws in our media and our lives, we as a society must accept the fact that people are watching us. With the advent of new technologies, people have the opportunity to abuse their flaws. Browsers should reach where hackers cannot view their personal hardware. We all know it won't happen anytime soon, but maybe we can get it another time. We should allow the NSA to examine our activities, they do it to protect us. With people denying the existence of the NSA or any other privacy network, we are open to more hackers or criminals. The more we avoid protecting ourselves, the more we can be harmed or threatened. For example, people can hack landlines when you walk past them. By simply walking past, without you being on the phone, they can get all your information. ~ USA Today. "The National Security Agency collects fewer than 30 percent of all Americans' call records because of its inability to keep pace with the explosion in cellphone use, according to current and former U.S. officials." (Washington Post)We need to at least let the National Security Agency watch us, 30% isn't much at all. Out of 9 million Americans, 30% is not enough. There are 70% of American citizens likely to commit treason. Edward Snowden, for example, is a famous former NSA agent who leaked information about ...... middle of paper ....... Everything they do is for us, not for themselves, mostly, and as you look at your computer, with more and more things the government uses to protect us like Public Law 113-2. As more and more people worry about fraud, identity theft, or having their personal information stolen, then they must accept the fact that we are being monitored. Privacy laws are essential these days and we'd be nowhere without them, and now with new ways for hackers to find out who we are, what we do, and literally everything about us, we wouldn't nowhere without privacy laws. Without the banks, the NSA, the government or anything else we would be in a life of social fraud and complete isolation, for what reason? After reading everything, think about what you would do to protect yourself? How much would you risk isolating yourself from others? What would you do?