Book Club assignment - Little Brother

In the book Little Brother, one of the interesting topics were that there were  spies. Marcus (w1n5t0n) was kidnapped by the Federal agents. He was taken into a van for some time, and ended p being in a prison. The agents asked and asked questions because his previous activity was suspicious. He was hacking the school system, but that was irrelevant to why he was there. They kept asking about hbe terrorist atttack and thought he was a part of it. later on people do spy on the whole city with mini cameras, and a mini chip in marcus' laptop. This is relevent to our world, because most of which is happening right now. In the USA for example, The NSA is tracking down internet patterns and what people have been doing. Not only is this invasion of privacy, but people have no internet freedom. Not only internet, but as well as phone calls, listen in on many conversation. In my opinion I have no clue why the government is doing this. To block people away from illegal downloading or just to be in their privacy. The government shouldn't have the power, to even be able to do anything regards to privacy.