There aren’t that many people who believe that it is Constitutional, let alone right, for the government to know everything about us, such as the places that we go to, where we congregate, as well as our social interactions with others, but this indeed is the state-of-the-art at the present day, because our cell phones, in conjunction with our social media posts pretty much gives up the ghost to the government, whenever that government chooses to access that data, which they are quite adept at accomplishing. It has to be recognized that the average citizen, would not sign up for, nor agree to, to carry upon themselves an extremely accurate location device, such as an ankle monitoring bracelet that serves to keep track of their exact location, or would we allow ourselves to have a listening device that is subject to being constantly on within our house, but modern day smartphones, reliably track where we are, at all times, though its GPS functioning, and also because cell phones are voice-activated, they are quite capable then of being able to listen in on our conversations without us being able to wholly control or counteract that. So then, we live in a day and age, in which, any of us, can be surveilled, essentially without our expressed permission or our knowledge, which is certainly a violation of our privacy and should be seen then as an infringement upon our Constitutional rights.
It would be one thing if our government behaved as a good parent, who was thereby concerned about our well-being and specifically desired to monitor us, as an extra protection device, meant to protect us from harm, or from those that would harbor ill intentions towards us. Regrettably, this government is not a good parent, whatsoever, and further to the point, has zero of the qualities of what would be the attributes of a good parent, for this government doesn’t seem to really care about our welfare, or our sovereignty, or our dignity, or our freedom, but desires instead to monitor us for its own impenetrable purposes, which are often at cross-purposes to what it means for us to have life, liberty, and happiness.
This is indeed a dangerous surveillance age, because the more actionable information that the government has about us, the more that this can be utilized by that government as a cudgel to suppress those that are unorthodox or are considered to be outside the norm, or troublesome. When it comes to many a government, what they so desire from the average citizen, besides productivity, is obedience to the state, and thereby they aren’t interested in hearing of or having to deal with dissent. Those who know everything about us, are quite capable of using that as a pressure point to get us to acquiesce to whatever it is that the government wants, or those of private enterprise that work hand-in-glove with that government, desires from us, and the price of disobedience to that is at a minimum to possibly expose our private life in the worse way possible, in order then to embarrass us, or to humiliate us, as well as an object lesson for all others, to learn from.