User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-213.122.76.50-20140206210045

I am from the UK and 70 years old. I strongly believe that our right to transparancy and privacy is a fundemental and what is more an essential right. As an individual I have the right to have my views, opinions and make and express them in an agreed and lawful way. As individuals we can only be policed and governed with our majority consent. To understand if i want to give that consent to the behaviour of those that govern us as a citizen I need to trust the honesty and the transparancy of those with vast power that make decisions on my behalf. I also wish to be able to go about using the internet in a way that protects my privacy. I should be allowed to go about my private life and my private business without being accountable to the Government or those snooping on their behalf. I am beginning to believe, that even though my family from the generations of our forefathers and my Husband as well as my grandchildren have and are serving in the armed services, that they will question why they fought or are fighting for freedom if we are going to be presumed guilty before we have acted in an unlawful way. It is scary to know we are being spied on and certainly is ensuring we are careful what we post on the internet in what we thought was private messages between our family members in case our peculiar sense of family humour is mis-interpreted....shame on them...spying on our citizens, young or old.