Cyber world, the world all privacy laws seem to have forgotten

Around the western world the right to privacy is one of the strongest founded human rights. In the US constituion this is based in the very 1st amendment of the bill of right. this is a right carried in the Human rights convention declared by the UN. And most nations have own laws securing their populations privacy. Still within the cyber world the goverments seems to have forgotten about these laws. Private companies have the right to surveillance private peoples IP addresses just on a slight suspiction that there is some illegal activity going on. People`s personal mail online are being watched in some case it might be terrorism. the goverments that are put in place to uphold these rights are the ones bending the laws to allow it to happen.

In Europe we have a new directive from the European Union called the DRD, where member states have to store citizen`s telecommunication history from 6 to 24 months. Also members who are attavhed to the union throgh the European Economic Community have to implement it. Norway is one such contry althoug there is a strong opposition against it as people belive it is a violation of one`s right to privacy.

With the increased industry of piracy of entertainment media there are also the surveillance of what is belived to be perpetrators by private corporatoins. They have also in some countries been allowed to demand the ISP`s to deliver the name of the IP holders, without there ever being authorites involved. in a country like France and the eEngland the government seems more like to encourage the private corporations to infringe on the privacy of individuals by extending rights of these goverments to do their surveillance.

Are these infringements on the individual`s privacy right. With the DRD the goal is to reduce terrorism and crime, to make sure evidence online is not lost. But in the process legal upstanding citizen`s data is also stored. The government and whom ever they grant accsess to will have a clear look into everything that goes online. Private corporations searching for pirates of entertainment online gets to roam freely now in many countries after individuals who thwy just have a suspiction of havung done something illegal. In my opinoin these qestions are qustionable on both a ideological and ethical standpoint. With the goverment letting private corprations infringe freely on individuals privacy, setting the monopoly of violence ( Max Weber`s main characteristic of what can be called a state) in jeopardy. And are we truly willing to give up some of our freedom for the offbeat we might catch some criminal activates? I`ll answer this in word of one of the founding fathers of the U.S.A Benjamin Franklin" Those who would give up essential liberty to purcase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety"