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Yesterday I’ve read this article and was astonished how patient we are! Step by step the Government interferes into our private life and we agree with it and do nothing to avoid it! And Wired, one of the most reliable and independent on-line magazines, reports about it with no word against. I am unhappily surprised…
I shared this article with some friends of mine, and we discussed it a lot. We think that installation of GPS-devices is the invasion of privacy. A vivid example of it!
One can argue that if you are a square John that pays all the taxes, goes to church every Sunday, and retires for the night at 9pm, you have nothing to hide but not all people (thanks God!) are like that and not only criminals have secrets.
For example, one of my friends is married for 15 years, he is a father of two cute boys. And he has a love-mate. Is it unmoral? Maybe. Is it against the law? No! Then, why should anybody know about his affair or blame him for that? It’s a question of morality only.
Another argument I’ve heard pro this terrible draft law is like that: only the authorities will know about one’s private life but it could prevent a great number of crimes, so it’s justified enough to trace anybody suspected of anything.
But “the Authorities” means that something about a thousand people will have access to one’s private life – to know, as it was said in the article, when I go to gym, when I watch TV, and what time I take my child to school. Would you like it? I would not!
And one more thing, how many cases of preventing a crime due to GPS-devices do you know of? 2? 3? 10? Just compare these figures to amount of computer hackers you know and try to guess how long your private life will preserve its privacy.
You know, I agree that safety is very important and we should be highly concerned about it but I believe that the officials who are in charge of the citizens’ safety and security should work for the money they are paid from the state budget and investigate each and every crime separately and not just suspect everybody around and trace everybody’s private life just in case. I am absolutely sure that no matter how serious and reasoned the suspicions are, they should be proven at the court, and only court should have right to issue a warrant to trace somebody whoever it is. Otherwise, all the rights granted us by the US Constitution are formally perfect but essentially sheer mockery.
Anyway, thank you for publishing this controversial issue, and keep us informed about what’s going on in the world of politics.

Writer’s Memo

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My main argument is: private life should remain private, and neither other people, nor the authorities are allowed to invade it.

The intended audience is on-line readers of the magazine – people of different age, social status, different states, and maybe even not only from the US but from other countries as well. I think that people who prefer on-line news reading to newspaper reading are less traditional (that pre-conditioned the choice of words, for example), younger (that pre-conditioned a given example), and try not to waste their time. That’s why I tried to make the letter quite emotional and full of exclamations and rhetorical questions in order to draw more attention to the opinion expressed in the letter.

I have written my letter in quite a colloquial style to make it more like a post or a commentary than like a letter as such people are usually use the Internet not to write formal letters but “to chat”, and usually they do it in the same way that they use to talk to their friends.

I consider the last but one paragraph to be the most effective part of my letter as it underlines the expressed opinion and refers to the facts given in the article as well.