How much privacy do we as the American people really have? American privacy is not directly guaranteed in any way by the United States Constitution; however, thanks to the Fourth Amendment, Americans are protected from illegal searches and seizures. So isn't it ironic that in today's modern world, nothing we do that is in any way connected to the Internet remains discreet? A Google search, an email, a text message, or even a phone call risks being freely intercepted, tracked, geotagged, documented, and stored by the government under the guise of “protecting” the American people. Quite simply, the government, in order to protect us and our rights, is willing to be hypocritical and act as if our right were simply a privilege and, without any form of consent from the people, to keep virtually every single one of us. In the words of former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis "The right of privacy is the right of a person to be left alone by the government... the right most prized by civilized men." Privacy is not just a privilege, it is a non-negotiable right, and it deserves to be treated as such. Since the introduction of the Internet is a relatively new phenomenon, the act of cyber espionage has not been adequately recognized by society. The American government has done a tough job of keeping its methods in the shadows and out of sight of its people since its documented domestic surveillance began on October 4, 2001. Twenty-three days after the fall of the Twin Towers, President George Bush signed an order to launch a secret internal wiretapping operation, such a sensitive operation; that even many of the country's top national security officials with... half of paper ......ots and indeed saved many, many lives, yet Edward Snowden said that "the bathtub falls and the police officers they kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we have been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of being victims.” killed by a terrorist, yet our government would ignore this and use terrorism as a false pretext to freelance control its people The greatest irony of all lies in one word "protection", the police are meant to protect us and yet they are more likely that we should be killed by one of them than by a terrorist, and the government that protects us by spying on us. Our privacy is our right, not our privilege, and the government should not protect our rights by violating them.