User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-24317070-20140205200952

The real danger of the government or any agency contracted to monitor people online on their phone or in any other way lies in the power of information. What do I mean by this? Well if you could listen in on any CEO, Developer, President of a company, you would have a direct line into inside trading information. Who watches our watchdog's? How do we know if they are abusing the information they get a hold of? It is human nature to use information like this to gain money. Greed is inherent and this type of power will be abused.

How far would that abuse go? If said agencies had ulterior motives they could control the world through money by usuing the information I listed above. If you get creative with this you can figure out there are thousands of other ways to use information to control people. This part of this equation I am totally against.

Do I care if they watch my online activity? No, because I'm not doing anything wrong so for me personally they are protecting me not hurting me. But the minute my connection is slowed or my private drives are filled with their tools or data it does cause me problems and that is where I draw the line.

Then there is the right to privacy, why and what can be used against me. It's like entering your home without a search warrant. That does bother me. I would not want some guy digging through my wife's underwear to find something that wasnt there. I don't like being treated like a criminal when I am an honest citizen.

I do want cyber criminals who steal information and money caught and sent to prison. They destroy way more than just reading my emails. They destroy commerce online. Our world revolves around it and if they don't do everything they can to stop it our world will suffer serious concequences.

There is always collateral damage in a war, and unfortunately for now until they find a way to catch criminals without invading our space, our privacy is collateral damage.