What if the government is the threat to our safety? Would it be wise to give up our right to privacy by letting the government have unfettered access to our lives and data as long as it means we will always be safe?
Let me not sound like this question is a bit complicated because it's not, especially for someone living in my country, where safety is nothing to write home about and where the government is careless about safety. So what are we talking about here? I didn't mean to talk about my country this soon, but blame this prompt, because it's difficult to discuss safety without opening up to where our government has failed us and kept failing us.
A country where if you live to be safe the next day, you thank your God for keeping you safe, not because there are security personnel making sure that innocent lives are not butchered like fowls. What type of safety are we even talking about when people can go to church to worship their God and their corpse will be brought back home? What manner of safety is guaranteed when farmers go for their usual farming and their heads will be cut off, and students living in dormitories are being abducted and their abductors request ransom and our government offers it to them without arresting them? What does that tell us?
And many more terrible things that kept unfolding every now and then, which makes us practically live in fear. An ordinary balloon burst; people were running helter-skelter in my community the other day. The fear of Fulani herdsmen is the beginning of wisdom, lol, but then it is what it is.
Many rich and middle-class men in our country don't wait for any government to secure them anymore; they hire security men and have their peace. We here; we are just in God's hands, using a padlock to padlock our doors while trusting God for safety.So you see, I am not letting my privacy go to any so-called government of my country because they always fail, and this time they will still fail even while having access to my privacy.
What are they doing with it by the way? Like say they can hurt a fly. Excuse me, my privacy is my privacy; the name alone, "privacy," has said it all. Thou shall respect my privacy and never invade it.
If things should be handled rightly, we are supposed to be provided with adequate safety without any privacy demand. It is the work of the government to protect their citizens, and for this failed government of mine, it's even risky to give them full access to my data. Because will I be safe? When they are turning to sponsor terrorism, how am I sure that my privacy will be safe in their hands. It's a no-no idea; everyone deserves his or her privacy. Even down to my little kids, I ensure to give them their needed space without invading.
This post is in response to the Hive Learners prompt on the topic of PRIVACY OR SECURITY.
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