Privacy Is Utterly Dead By Peter Singer - 1257 Words

Privacy is Utterly Dead Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor at Princeton University and the University of Melbourne that studies Bioethics, Philosophy and Public Ethnics. This essay â€Å"Visible Man: Ethnics in a World without Secrets† focuses on transparency and personal privacy. One can see after reading this essay, Singer is in favor of openness, but he also notes that the government misuses these technologies. Privacy is defined â€Å"as the claim of individuals, groups to determine when, how and to what extent information about them is communicated to others†. Goldman explains surveillance as â€Å"a close observation of someone to catch them in wrongdoing† (326). Sousveillance is â€Å"recording of an activity from the perspective of everyday lifestyle† (â€Å"Sousveillance†). Before 9/11 the government respected individual privacy and acted accordingly by not spying on its citizens to the extent that it does so now. This makes one w onder; do American citizens really have a right to privacy? The answer to this is no. Because events like 9/11 have happened, the government now has the right to invade its citizen’s privacy by, preventing prejudices between authorities and citizens, installing security cameras and reading our social media accounts . Many believe the government has the right to invade our privacy, while others say we should have the right to our privacy. During the fourteenth century, people desired to be free from being observed or disturbed by other people. Someone