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It is fairly obvious that information about individuals is more easily obtainable that ever before, but just because the information is available it does not mean that it is being used. The government could potentially obtain information about an individual through credit card information, online blogs and forums such as Facebook, and even contacting a person's Internet provider to see all of the sites that they have been on. This is a scary thought, but you must realize that getting this information takes time, and deciphering the information takes even more time. If the government has the ability to invade anyone's privacy through these means, it would be impossible to think that they can even begin to have the manpower to be able to do it on a scale that affects our lives.

A good example of this is in the recent school shooting incidents. In almost all recent cases, there have been tell-tale signs online that would easily have been available for use in preventing the incidents. This information was never seen, nore used simply because of the fact that it was among tens of thousands of other sites that were useless in preventing the incidents. If it was possible for the information to be used to prevent any incident, you can bet your bottom dollar that it would have been, but since it was in the sea of useless information, it was essentially useless.

When information is available at such a universal level, it is impossible to believe that there is a breach of privacy. Information can be compared to any commodity, once it is universally available on such a large scale, it decreases in value. Eventually, if something becomes so easy to obtain that anyone can get it anytime, it loses all value.

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