Somebody's WATCHING me

I came across this commentary article, “I always feel like somebody’s watching me” by Leonard Pitts and shortly after, I have chills down my spine. In this article he is convinced that the advancement of technologies has driven America to a place of secret free and that we are moving towards a full surveillance society. With technology, he said that “in the beginning was the fingerprint” and now in the 20th century scientists uses DNA as a means of identification in place of a simple fingerprint.

The feds are building databases and some Americans like me are getting worried. CNN and The Associated Press recently reported that the FBI will award $1 billion, 10 year contract for the creation of an electronic file that can store fingerprints, DNA and interestingly, physical characters. Physical characters including but not limited to eye scans, facial shape, scars, TATTOOS etc. He said, “Government will also have on file the shape of your iris, the scar from childhood appendectomy, and the butterfly tattoo on your inner thigh.” I agree that this is a movement for a surveillance society because of the massive storage of our personal information being held by the government.

Nowadays, there is a camera on almost every corner to monitor closely our actions. Eventually they will be able to track us anywhere we go, anytime of the day and our daily activities will be noted on file. Will we have the word privacy at all? The answer is “probably not”. With the advancement in technology, we won’t even know that everything we do is being recorded and that our privacy has been violated. How can we be definite that our information will not leak out to others? We are told VERBALLY or by writing that it is confidential and is used only to pull out the criminals in society but is it really and fully protected from the underlying scams/scandals of government? Sure, it’s an absolute comfort to everyone that we have the most updated technology to ferret out the criminals but for whatever else reasons behind it, it’s costing our right to be left alone. It will not be a long time that when it comes to government, nothing you do will be a secrete.


http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/points/stories/DN-pitts_17edi.ART.State.Edition1.458b79f.html