US Fights Privacy

          On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 it was reported by The Cable, which reports on foreign policy, that the U.S. is trying to kill online privacy everywhere.  While places like Brazil and Germany are pushing for online communications to have the right of privacy applied to them thus protecting the home, family, privacy, or correspondence from being subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference.  However, the U.S. is privately seeking to kill that provision due to it stating that “extraterritorial surveillance” and mass interception of communications, personal info, and metadata are included. 

          Basically what I get from this is the fact that the U.S. wants to continue to spy on other countries while protecting only their own citizens, if that.  The U.S. in my opinion likes to put on a façade that it wants to protect privacy of citizens, but at the end of the day it actually wants to have control and keep an eye on everything that it can.  After the events of September 11^th, privacy has been very hard to come by in this country as the U.S. always wants to be on top of things and not being able to “spy” on other countries puts them in a vulnerable spot that they do not wish to be in. 

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          On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 it was reported by The Cable, which reports on foreign policy, that the U.S. is trying to kill online privacy everywhere.  While places like Brazil and Germany are pushing for online communications to have the right of privacy applied to them thus protecting the home, family, privacy, or correspondence from being subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference.  However, the U.S. is privately seeking to kill that provision due to it stating that “extraterritorial surveillance” and mass interception of communications, personal info, and metadata are included. 

          Basically what I get from this is the fact that the U.S. wants to continue to spy on other countries while protecting only their own citizens, if that.  The U.S. in my opinion likes to put on a façade that it wants to protect privacy of citizens, but at the end of the day it actually wants to have control and keep an eye on everything that it can.  After the events of September 11^th, privacy has been very hard to come by in this country as the U.S. always wants to be on top of things and not being able to “spy” on other countries puts them in a vulnerable spot that they do not wish to be in. 

Word Count: 210

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/20/exclusive_inside_americas_plan_to_kill_online_privacy_rights_everywhere