Monitoring

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home, or correspondence.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

I’m quite a private person but the proliferation of communications monitoring has never really bothered me but, in democratic societies, it is the role of government to balance the rights of all. I carry this video, not because I feel so very strongly about the matter – giving up some rights in order to ensure our own safety has some merit. However, Big Brother is most certainly watching us.