Senator's Push to Preserve N.S.A.Phone Surveillance

1) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/27/us/politics/senators-push-to-preserve-nsa-phone-surveillance.html?ref=todayspaper

2) Category of problem: Social/Government 

3) Level of problem: National

4) The article concerns: The line between national security, and invasion of the privacy of the people in the Nation, the regards to the N.S.A Surveillance that was recently publicly leaked.  Senator Dianne Feinstein's bill would be aimed at increasing peoples privacy and monitoring what the government is able to see. 

5) How does it affect individuals/families? It affects the privacy of the people in our nation and poses the question of whether or not our government is going too far by monitoring its people.

6) What are your opinions on the issue? After all of the horrible and tragic events that have taken place in the past year, it's hard to have a straight arrow opinion on the batter of whether or not I feel the government has too big of a hand in our privacy by monitoring our lives, basically. As weird as it is knowing that the government screens basically anything I do online or on anything that requires technology, It's nice knowing someone is looking out for you, but if you really think about it, the government has been doing this for quite a while. Maybe not to this extent, but our technology was already being monitored at the time of all of these tragedies our country has faced, and all the people involved had to have used some form of technological communication. Why didn't the government step in then and do something about the situation before it was too late? If they're monitoring our every move, where exactly are they, and what are they really doing with all of this information that they've been gathering on all of us? I'm all for the government monitoring what we do and look up, as long as they're actually doing something about it when someone is about to endanger other people's lives. I understand the push for a bill to protect our privacy, just because the whole "big brother" thing is a little unnerving, but at the same time, someone has to do it, in my opinion, I think it all comes down to our government communicating with us so we feel like we are more apart of these decisions and less like Guinea pigs.