Why would they want to destroy me?!
That is exactly the point i wanted to show you. Maybe at this point of time they dont want to destroy you, but all the collected and analysed data of you
could be used against you
in the future. Especially political groups can be victims of this surveillance. 50 years ago the government had no chance to get information about the political opinion of nearly every citizen. Today they have it. Maybe they dont use it at this point of time, but can you tell the future?
Security through surveillance is not a strong argument. Through 100% Surveillance you would almost get 100% Security (like when every person would be watched by a governments agent) but its about the balance. You simply cant collect all data about every person without an suspicion. Thats why in most countrys of the world (not the USA since the patriot act) telefon surveillance has to be granted by a judge in every single case.
And to state it out again - This complete and unlimited surveillance is clearly against the right. I know you guys overseas have traded in most civil rights after 9/11 for "Security". But here in the European Union there is even a
Fundamental Right in Datasecurity (means noone is allowed to obtain all your data without permission) in Artikel 16 AEUV. And as a law student i can tell you in Germany this kind of surveillance breaks not only this law.
- First of all its against our
first fundamental right, the "human dignity" - means, that no person can be handled as an objekt, but this is what they are doing, when they collect all your data and store it (this is what our highest court says).
- Second its against our fundamental right of "free expression". Maybe you this may sound paradox to you guys overseas, but if all your data gets collected and all your political statements you make online get collected many people are scared to even make political statements (again this is exactly what our highest court states out).
The claim is to only monitor people who are suspicious in some way. There can be no general suspicion.
Yes and even without this kind of total surveillance terror acts have been prevented in the past. Even 9/11 could have been prevented - its clear that your secret services had hints about it.
In the last 10 years the died more people of getting slayn by downfalling televisions then by terrorists, but yes "Terrorism" is the biggest danger of human history. (Ask your government).
Just create fear and all the people will trade in their fundamental rights for "security".
This is the beginning my friend.
This Surveillance is not comparative