The Eye in the Sky technology was developed in order to stop crime and increase security. While some might insist this is a violation of the patriot act, it cannot be denied that the ease with which criminals can be followed from crime scenes or drug lords can be tracked to their headquarters is invaluable information. Most US citizens who insist they are doing nothing wrong have nothing to hide, and therefore no reason to not be in favor of the Eye in the Sky.
However, it is easy to reject this technology on the basis that it gives the government too much power and removes all privacy from everyday life. Many United States citizens, for example, worry that Big Brother will emerge from the government’s innocent “security amplification” and our country will slowly become George Orwell’s 1984 dystopia. This technology is very easy to misuse and would yield catastrophic results, should the data fall into the wrong hands. It is easy for As Edward Snowdin once said, “arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”