They See You When You're Sleeping

Group Question: What role should the government play in everyday people’s life?
My Hypothesis: The governments participation in everyday social lives via monitoring is an infringement on our ability to attain utility.
         I want to learn more about how the government should be involved in citizens everyday life. I feel as though citizens should know how the government monitors them. A successful society should have no barriers between the governing body and the citizenship that the governing body overlooks. If the government is spying, tapping, or censoring the people with a scapegoat such as “it’s for your own safety”. The government is engaging in suspicion less surveillance: that it takes in and tracks sensitive information about innocent people. This activity is infringing itself upon our privacy and freedom of speech as a whole society.

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Research Questions:

1. What are past cases of unlawful surveillance?
2. Do other countries governments survey their citizens as loosely as ours does? (does their government get caught)
3. What are some groups that are for/participating in this surveillance?
4. What are the pros and cons of governmental surveillance?
5. How does our government perform acts that infringe themselves upon our rights as citizens?