privacy violated?

As many would know, there might be a possibility of the government secretly wiretapping people's phones, emails or any other communication device using the excuse of "national security" and "finding the terrorist." Well, if that did happen, the victim wouldn't even know about it since it was done secretly, but how did the government get such information if the first place? In San Fransisco, a Justice Department attorney argued with with lawyers from five states in federal court over the Bush administration's attempt to block states from investigating if phone companies illegally shared customer information with the National Security Agency. Assuming the phone companies did, it would be a serious violation of privacy rights on both the government and the phone companies' part. There is also a violation of phone company contracts with the consumer, since most phone companies say beforehand that they would never give out any private informations.

Doing things secretly behind the citizens' and consumers' backs is just wrong. Government shouldn't have the power to spy on people like that. Both government and phone companies not only violate a person's right to privacy, they also violate the trust a citizen has in their government and the trust a consumer places with the phone company when agreeing to sign up with their services. There are definitely things people do not want others to know as well as others not wanting to know about certain things about people. And what will happen if no one has any trust anymore?

Here's the article.