Reading response 10/9, late due to Internet problems and my bar mitzvah

In an article in called Watching You by Patricia Smith, in the upfront magazine, the author seems to want to make you challenge what is right and what is wrong. The article is about how the government is spying on you via your electronics, and if this surveillance is okay, or is it an intrusion upon privacy. It tries to make you question your opinion on a subject of privacy versus safety. It makes you wonder why Edward Snowden chose to break the news to all of the country.

            I believe that the author wants you to think that this is a major issue. In my opinion, you really should not have anything to hide from the government that is something that is damaging. The article talks about how the surveillance helped find the people who were trying to kill many of the other people.  This article made me wonder where the line should be drawn between the two. sides of the argument. I think that it is okay if they see who you call, but not be able to listen in on the call or get the picture of the person you are skyping. The government does not need to see your actual body, they just need to see if you are suspicious.

            In the article, they mention Edward Snowden, who is a person who leaked all of this information to the public. In my opinion this man is not a traitor because of the fact that he unveiled secrecy. Knowledge is important, and if we do not know what the government s doing right now, who knows what else they are hiding from us. This part shows that the fact that they are watching us is necessarily bad, but it is something to think about.