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Should The Government Be Monitored

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Is your every move being monitored by the government?
Internet security is defined as a process to create rules and actions to take to protect against attacks over the internet. An example of internet security is an online system that prevents credit card numbers from being stolen on a shopping website. Whereas internet privacy involves the right or mandate of personal privacy concerning storing, repurposing, provision to third parties, and displaying of information pertaining to oneself via the internet. Internet privacy is a subset of data privacy. Both internet security and privacy should definitely be monitored by the government, however it should only be monitored to a certain extent. There should be only certain situations to what can be monitored. For example, it makes sense to monitor the vast majority of the population to track what people
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We as citizens of the United States, have the freedom of speech, religion, and the press. Meaning we should be able to do whatever we want without being observed. It is understandable that there is internet security because who knows what kind of crazy people are out there in the world, just waiting behind their computer screens to monitor and use what they monitor to their advantage; in other words, I believe that if it is the government, and it has restrictions and regulations to follow, then monitoring should be okay, if it is confidential. However, if there are just hackers out there waiting to hack the accounts and pursue identity theft, then that is when internet security kicks in. It is by far too difficult for us to not live without internet security and privacy. There are way too many people out there who will take advantage of the system, and will do whatever they can to get what they want. For example, they will try to cheat their way and take the easy way out of every situation possible to achieve what they
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