Government want to track you on Facebook

The latest idea from the government is to not only track our e-mails, our phone calls, but now our activities on social networking sites. The government must think it’s Christmas after witnessing the soaring use of Facebook, they’re desperate to trample over our private affairs. The creation of this big brother database is allegedly going to make us more secure, but then, that’s always the reason they use to coerce the electorate to give up essential freedom. At what point does protecting our freedom, by taking it away, actually negate the idea? The government needs to stay out of our lives.

There is no doubt that this will make no difference at all to our security, just like their expensive, intrusive ID cards. It’s all about filing the citizens away as a statistic, a statistic that will presumably be left on a train somewhere. I think they already have more data than they can cope with, we all know how good the government are at keeping what they have now safe. Once this data is taken, how do we know future governments won’t use it in a different way, perhaps one we really don’t consent to? Welcome to 1984.

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. – Benjamin Franklin