The NSA continues to spy on the American people through social media networks. It may seem harmless to some citizens because social media only has information that the user provides. On a personal note, it doesn't matter to me if the NSA collects my personal information such as my name, my birthday, my current living location, and any other information I provide. The government already has that information. What most people don't know is that the NSA collects information on who you connect with and is capable of tracking your location when you post information. Social media that allow location features now gives the government an easy method of monitoring where any person may be. By watching its citizens like this, the US government is transforming into George Orwell's communist society described in his book, 1984. This is another step that our government has taken to become more like a communist party and there is little being done to restrain the government.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/30/us/nsa-social-networks/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
I understand where the government is coming from - wanting to protect the American people - but they are over stepping their bounds. My main question is where will it stop? For now the government is mostly just intercepting and scanning our information, but how long will it be before they are filtering what we say and taking away even more of our basic Constitutional Rights.
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