One thing I learned from the majority of the presentations was how much the government looks and retains our information. We know the majority of this information thanks too whistleblowers. The government has all our information stored on computers as well as more information than we would like to. We were given this information because of a whistleblower named Edward Snowden. Snowden leaked information about texts, emails, and a lot more private information being stored by the government. Snowden released information and is now wanted by the US government. I have seen in the news that Russia has offered him citizenship to protect him from the American courts/prisons, because what he did is clearly against government protocol.
I found the idea of whistleblowers interesting because I would love be inside the mind of somebody who makes that choice and how they are going to sacrifice their career in order to leak information. We would never of known that the government keeps our messages stored away without the leak from Snowden. When I was younger my friends and I used to make jokes saying the government was watching us, now it is a reality that the government is really storing our stuff. At what point do they snap and make that choice that could potentially bring riots to the country? There have been many whistleblowers over the years in the US and with the current way the US is going I predict that there will be more that will come forward with classified information that could divide or split this country even more from where it is currently.
The idea of whistleblowers falls under five eyes and how they monitor citizens and I learned a lot from about how the government takes our "private" information and stores it. Even the joke about an FBI agent in the laptop camera being a joke maybe a reality, the truth for the public is, we will never know when or if the government is watching and/or listening.
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