Growing up in the peak of technology was both a curse and a blessing to me. On one hand, I got access to more information and things to do than any generation before. Ive had the ability my whole life to have access to any piece of information in the world at the grasp of my fingertips. Once I hit middle school, the social media craze began. Everyone eager to pour their whole lives out to their followers. My family and I were relentless with our social media usage, documenting our everyday happenings. It wasnt until my brother graduated college and applied for a new job that we began to smarten up on our social media usage. My brother applied for a job at a company called Booz-Allen Hamilton, the same company the patriot discussed later worked at. When my brother applied, they did an extensive background check making sure that he had no criminal record or anything of the sort. After searching his record, they made him take a lie detector test. During the lie det
ector test they questioned him on every private part of his life trying to see if they could crack him and make him admit to something. They questioned him about credit card purchases, speeding tickets, everything about his life. When my family heard about this my parents were terrified. Things that my brother thought were just messages between friends were seen by people in the government. My family, my mom specifically, started forcing each other to become way more cautious with our phone usage. When a man by the name of Edward Snowden came around all these secrecies were confirmed. He decided that the people of America had been living in the dark for too long. When he released classified documents to the world, he educated every single American citizen on how to stay protected from prying eyes and theft. Even though there are those who thing that what he did was a bad thing, he risked his life to inform people on how they were living under a lying government.