DK appears to have gone mad, however, there appears some validation in at least one issue:wiretapping. Although the initial us of wiretapping was restricted only to “international calls or emails between suspect foreigners”, it has slowly grown to encompass ordinary citizens of the United States. Recently, local government “tipster” centers have been appearing throughout the US (officially known as Fusion centers, funded by the federal government but created locally this way it is not an official centralized spying program but instead appears much like a decentralized effort), which essentially promote domestic spying on the U.S. population with or without any proper cause for such spying. Through these types of centers large databases of information about ordinary citizens have been collected, however, theses centers have been exempt from federal privacy laws, which would allow individuals to view their own files and make corrections if necessary. Although I believe firmly in the protection of the U.S. and agree with limited wiretapping of suspected individuals, I do feel a strong sense of concern with respect to the governments’ development of domestic spying on ordinary citizens.
