Nowhere to hide

I suppose, everyone remember that buzz around peoples' privacy rights when Wikileaks' and Snowden's top secret data about world's governments' mass surveillance. Everyone were shocked and struck when realized, that somebody else can read your private e-mails, text messages, even listen to your last phone call record. But governments don't hurry to abandon that "self-espionage", justifying total control with the risk of terrorists' attacks. But here's the problem: we aren't terrorists and we don't want our private life to become national treasure.

Laws of most countries guarantee its citizens right of privacy, integrity of personal data. But remember how many times you gave other people, companies your name, phone number, ID number, credit card number, how many times you are seen by cameras everyday, how much information do the social webs contain about you... Is personal data so personal? No, for a good hacker it's rather easy to know almost everything about anyone using only the Internet. For a government even easier. Their logic is simple: people should give a part of private freedom, state should give them security. Of course, there should be a border for government's huge possibilities: some document, judge's decision etc.

New communication technologies like mobile phones, e-mail's, video calls, social webs were originally invented to ease contact between people, to let us talk without hindrance in any case. But new communication opportunities turned new espionage opportunities and make us worry much about our personal information. So should we get back to medieval age and abandon electronic communication? Should we endure such privacy violation? I suppose, not. People should use Internet and phones without worrying about their privacy and government should use their great espionage opportunities un such way. Look after terrorists, not me chatting on Facebook.