US spying on foreign nationals

It is  horrifying to know that US government’s Intelligence department has been gathering information about foreign nationals along with Americans, with the help of giant internet companies like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, AOL etc since the 9/11 attack on Twin Tower in New York. These technology companies providing data which include emails, videos, chats, photos, search queries of users of gmail, Facebook, YouTube, Skype, hotmail etc. Specially of  foreign nationals, all over the world for intelligence purposes. The government official came to silicon valley and demanded turnover of user data for a secret intelligence program.

 Now all nine giant technology companies denied  providing access to their server  to the government and any knowledge of the secret program . They drew a fine line between giving wholesale access to collect user data and giving specific data in response to court orders. They said the government did not have the backdoor information.

 The highest authority in America has defended the government government secret program to gather information about foreign nationals through an act called Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, with the help of PRISM, a computer system.

 Whatever may be the reasons for collecting user data of millions of people across the globe , that too, secretly is morally as well as legally wrong. The government and the technology companies both have broken the breach of  trusts. Millions of users throughout the world engaged in communicating with their loved one’s through these social media, exchanging mails, photos, videos etc. They feel cheated, shocked to know that all of their information was under surveillance by different agencies. The love for Facebook and gmail of the people are already starting to diminish.

There has to be a way out of this, the government should voluntarily destroy all the user data from their database, otherwise, they will bring huge problems for themselves.