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Why do we still accept that governments collect and snoop on our data?

Close up of silhouetted male hand typing on laptop keyboardhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/30/government-data-collection-citizens-acceptance-global-rights-privacy-free-speech 

Summary:

The article brings forth an argument against mass surveillance through using our internet data as individuals. Global rights, such as privacy and free speech, ae threatened by this and it is time to challenge it in European courts. 

A British court found that British intelligence agencies "acted unlawfully by concealing bulk spying programs from the public for over a decade." Thus, creating implications across the globe and not just in Europe. An example would be the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), who NSA swaps private data of citizens with, 


The lawsuit challenges the government’s mass surveillance of internet traffic as well as that gathered by NSA's bulk spying programs. e.g. past claims have shown they have monitored 
 millions of personal email and instant-messaging accounts and interception of data from Google and Yahoo user accounts. 

The law suit also expressed concerns regarding GCHQ’s access to these massive hoards of NSA-collected data – and vice versa.

They express the need for surveillance to be targeted and to protect fundamental rights of individuals which bulk spying clearly ignores. Bulk spying isn’t regulated or kept to a proportion yet it should be, this bulk spying prevents our private information from remaining private. This is a basic human right, where the law is involved there should be targeted surveillance not mass monitoring for no apparent reason

Key fact:
The court plays a critical role in the international human rights system by enforcing the European Convention on Human Rights, a treaty ratified by 47 nations

My opinion:

I agree that it is against our human rights and clearly a lot can be done to protect our rights. They shouldn't need to mass monitor people who aren't doing anything wrong, they are simply wasting time and resources as well as money on trivial matters. However i understand it may be the most efficient way to determine threats and learn the information needed but it don't mean i believe its ethically correct. 

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