Should The Government Monitoring Our Privacy?

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It is the overall consensus of the common people that the extent the government is monitoring us at this current time is a violation of our fundamental rights as human beings. That this surveillance of our activity is infringing upon our privacy, so in turn the founding laws that our Nation was built upon, which includes the right to privacy in our Bill of Rights, are prohibiting the government from observing our actions on the internet. Although there is an equitable point at the foundation of this argument, the extent at which our government monitors us is a necessary and integral part of our safety. At the initial start of the internet, the value in its use was not only noticed by the average citizen but also by various criminals who saw
If this is the case then why must it change when regarding the internet? The government must monitor the internet to such an extent that our safety would be ensured because its role as our protector was instituted from the it’s initial creation. In 2013, the NSA had stated that over 50 terrorist attacks had been thwarted through the use of the mass surveillance systems that they have in place. One of these was a bombing on the New York Stock Exchange, which might have yielded numerous deaths if it hadn’t been for the surveillance the government had put in place to safeguard against such attempts.It is safe to assume that the number of terror attacks that the government has stopped has only increased through the years. By these statistics alone, the role of the government in monitoring our internet is already determined. By imposing certain regulations and monitoring activity through the internet, lives were saved, and that is the quintessential role of the
In order for America to function, our financial health must be adequate, and our government’s duty is to keep America financially healthy. A 2014 study from the SmartData Collective estimated the aggregate annual cost from data breaches to be $140 billion. That number has the potential to grow exponentially larger with the absence of the regulations and monitoring that the government provides to safeguard against such breach attempts. Through various regulations and rules placed in by various divisions of the government such as the FTC, the amount of money being taken through system breaches is decreasing. The government must provide these regulations in order to maintain financial stability and these regulations are an integral part of its role in monitoring internet content. If regulation is required to protect the foundation of our economy then the role the government plays in monitoring internet content should reflect this