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This article talks about the governments spying on millions Americans. It also talks about how long this has been going on and lawsuits going on to fight against the lawsuit.

This article shows us how the NSA was spying information of millions of ordinary Americans. It had been possible with the assistance of major telecommunications carriers.

This article shows us how the NSA was spying information of millions of ordinary Americans. It had been possible with the assistance of major telecommunications carriers.

The ACLU Campaign to Stop Illegal Spying Today the government is spying on Americans in ways the founders of our country never could have imagined.

No one should be able to look into other peoples privacy especially if it is illegal. The privacy of someone should stay private and people should respect that.

This article talks about the FBI was denied access to monitor a mans computer. The reason being is that the feds did not have enough evidence to provide to the judge.

The National Security Agency has greatly expanded since September 11, 2001. People have come forward and recently exposed the corruption of the system, and the spying the agency has conducted on millions of Americans, through phone calls and other mass forms of media we consume everyday.

I understand the reason for the surveillance, but I feel that if they find nothing wrong, they should move on. I also feel that it is a violation of peoples' rights to privacy. If I was a suspected terrorist or caught peeping on sites that I shouldn't, please track me so that I don't hurt anyone or do irreparable damage. However, if you spy on me and all I do is talk to family and do homework, pay bills and occasionally visit Facebook, then just leave me alone. Spend the time watching someone that you should be.

Whether the NSA is listening to you or not, if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about, they are not sharing your information with others, nor are they even listening closely to your conversation. The NSA was weakened through the repealing of the patriot act last year, and since there have been 3 major terror attacks on the homeland, a clear rise in terror in the homeland through the gained power of terrorist due to paranoia from American citizens, who value privacy over safety.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) focuses public attention on emerging civil liberties, privacy, First Amendment issues. This being a huge privacy concern for a lot people, simply because there are no regulations in place for drones. Someone can easily go buy a drone and spy on you for just outside your own home. It could even follow you from home to work, figuring out daily routines. These makes people vulnerable to crimes against them and their families.

This is interesting. I think that people should have some sort of permit to be able to buy a drone. It is very inactive to peoples privacy. No one really knows what these people do with the drones. They could be invading privacy for bad reasons for all we know.

This article describes the increasing amount of privacy infiltration in the US. It also gives several reports of privacy issues nationally.

This is probably one of the most well known issues surrounding government corruption. Spying and stealing secret documents. Not to mention the attempt to pay off the thieves to keep everything quiet.

James Rosen, a fox news reporter got his hand on classified information about a source in North Korea. Government is now taking his and Fox News' phone records and such.

An Author of the Patriot Act is accusing the NSA of abusing their power. President Obama defends the Act.

The article discusses the difficulty of achieving "perfect privacy" with internet communication tools. The shortcomings of several forms of communication in protecting privacy are described.

Top secret court order forced Verizon to give up call data. Court order says, Verizon has to give up all call details, or telephony metadata, created by Verizon for communication. Basically, this means who you are, where you are, who your talking to, and how long you talked.

Article from "The Hill" documenting certain abuses admitted to by the chief of the NSA. This article gives just one example of why something like this is just too much power for humans to have.

Article from the CATO institute about the past NSA abuses that have been caught linking it to the current situation. This article presents a very bleak future for privacy.