Do You Agree if Government Watch Your Online Activity?

Indonesia
December 23, 2011 8:39pm CST
We have done many activity in the internet: browsing, making money online, twitting, facebooking, shopping, mylotting, watching, and mores. But there are also some of people who use internet in the bad way and because of this, Government has a plan to watch our online activity. Do you agree with that? Because if Government watch our online activity, there will be no privacy for us. What do you think?
9 responses
@Devilova (5392)
• Indonesia
24 Dec 11
There so much secrets that government didn't need to know about.But for some sites, I agree with it.Cause some of us used it to make a protes to the government. Facebook and Twitter, they have to watch it.Cause most peoples use it to say about reality in their life.With this way, government know and listen to it.
• Indonesia
24 Dec 11
I quite agree with your opinion. But they can't watch out private information/things when we socialize in Facebook and Twitter. Cuz maybe they can use it for bad things. But now it depends on the government
@Devilova (5392)
• Indonesia
24 Dec 11
There is no save place in the firtual world, even in our land lines and or cellphones.
• Philippines
24 Dec 11
Yes! Internet is very influence thing to us. We almost do any activity on net. Its not fair that government watching in our activity.It means the Privacy Policy Agreement and Terms and Conditions are very useless . We all agree of that because we want our information/activity become private to anyone. That's not fair. But If its the way to caught people who use net in a bad way. I will agree of that but they should make agreement that our personal info will not share to anyone only for our government.
• Indonesia
25 Dec 11
Yeah, you're right. There're always pros and cons around something like this. In some way people agree and the other way they don't. Thanks for your reply. Have a nice day!
@mr_pearl (5018)
• India
24 Dec 11
Hi... I don't think it is a good idea.. We can't let Govt peep into our private lives... Imagine centralization of all the private info, there are people in Govt who can misuse the data and there might blackmailing of innocent citizens... Or some fanatic might start an unholy mission on his false holy grounds... And things can go hopelessly wrong...
• Indonesia
24 Dec 11
Yups. I totally agree with you. Government can do bad things if they know TOO MUCH about our private information.
@megamatt (14292)
• United States
26 Dec 11
The government should work on trying to fix the country, rather than watching our online activity. Are there are a lot of bad things that are going to happen on the Internet? Why yes, there is. However, that's just something that we as people are going to have to deal with. The government stepping in would really screw up the Internet beyond all belief. It would destroy the Internet as we know it. For the simple fact, I doubt that anyone really has thought for a second about what kind of damage they can do, if Internet privacy is going to get compromised. The Internet is the backbone of modern society and to compromise it in any way would really cause more people to resent the government. Then again, I'm almost certain there are other reasons at work, to limit information about the government through "approved" channels. If you get my drift.
@whatrow (792)
• United States
26 Dec 11
I think it would be a good idea if they did. The government has a responsibility to protect the people it governs. If that means invading someone's privacy to stop a predator then that is the way it has to be. But, right now, the government would not be able to afford to hire people for this job.
@cearn25 (3456)
• Philippines
24 Dec 11
I don't want the government would interfere with our doings in the internet. That is already depriving our rights as free citizen and private also. They should think of another way on how to look for bad persons by not disturbing our lives.
• Indonesia
25 Dec 11
Yups. I buy your idea. But the problem comes: what is another way to make everybody feel safe while surf the internet?
@scheng1 (24650)
• Singapore
24 Dec 11
Hi Andryan, government does not have the resources to do that. No government in the world can do that. The only way they can do is to install certain programs, that will flag out certain keywords. If you are happened to be using the code word of a secret terrorist operation, then the government will get someone to read on your posts, and find out who you are. Other than that, they will not do much.
• Indonesia
24 Dec 11
They have done it...always keep watching, about what are the people doing.....Every government release a new law about IT. To keep privacy, fraud and other crime related with.
• Indonesia
24 Dec 11
Of Course No! Hmm... There are so much things happening nowadays. We can get the effect from the bad people. I can't imagine that. And I think for my country, there would be no such things. Because my country have many people and it is so hard to detect each people.