So the Government is watching the Internet... Figures

When it first came out that the American government was spying on pretty much everyone, the world went nuts. Obviously their own citizens were first in the monkey tantrum line, but as we all know, the West is like that big brother/sister we just HAVE TO listen to and follow their example, and so... the rest of the world joined the line. Well it was that, and mostly because when s*%t goes down in the US we stop and listen, 'There be nukes all over that place, yo.'

From what I came across, which I should make clear was a very limited amount of news articles and other stuff, was how the NSA have been secretly keeping tabs on all of Americas 'personal' information.

Now, while I go on and assume that this probably has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the world, it does lead to the question of whether or not the 'other NSA's' are doing the same thing.

You see, unlike NSA, those institutes haven't been caught [yet], let alone been proven in existence, but I'm pretty sure this is an issue that concerns everyone all the same, because let’s be honest; our information is everywhere. This is, after all, the Age of Information where all one needs is the internet and you are good to go.

But can we really be surprised that all that information is being monitored? Frankly, I think not.

We have all seen the movies and cheered the good guy on to get the bad guy, while using all his gadgets that did basically the same thing. It was only a matter of time before someone out there went, ‘Hey that looks cool, let’s make it!’ or were probably even inspired by a prototype of something already in the making.

In all honesty it shouldn't come as a surprise that the government is monitoring our information, who did we think was processing it all in the first place?

What would be a worry is if that information was being misused, but that’s a whole other section of complaints that should be left at the ‘handling’ of the information. [And no... not even with a stick shall I go near that •-•]

I don’t know, maybe my logic is wrong, but it seems pretty pointless to me to get angry at the NSA. I can only see the good that having access to that information has, or would we prefer they catch the terrorist, paedophiles, rapists and murders after the fact? 
I personally feel profilers could do a whole lot with this kind of advantage.

Maybe I'm wrong, it could just be that everyone’s actually angry that the NSA got caught and now they feel obligated to go with the flow and act all surprised, who knows? Either way, it seems like some people argue about ‘privacy’ in too many contradicting terms.

I'm not saying I have a clean browser history, but I’d rather have to stand red-faced in front of an officer explaining why my bank account got drained because of my overly curious nature, than stand in front of a judge and jury being falsely accused for embezzlement and card fraud under a false identity that the authorities couldn't identify because of all the red tape and decided to use the only name that popped up on the screen, which thanks to my luck would of course be mine.

Of course on the other hand ,I can see the possibility of abuse thanks to man's ability to smug the rules and blur the lines to their liking, but hey, who are we minions to the ones in the big fancy houses?

But then again, that’s just how I see things in my opinion…