Should the US government be allowed to spy on Americans to prevent terrorism? What is more important, your privacy or your security? This question often arises when discussing the US government's tendency to spy on American citizens. The United States of America has a long history with National Security Agencies (NSAs). The NSA is a United States intelligence agency responsible for producing and managing intelligence and ensuring information for the United States government. The idea that American citizens should trust government efforts to spy and do right by those with national security in their hands carries too many dangers. Although the government claims to spy on its citizens for their own protection, the question remains: Should the United States government have the power to spy on American citizens to prevent terrorism? There are many types of surveillance that the government has in place. . For example, computer surveillance, telephone surveillance and camera surveillance. The government still claims it doesn't spy on ordinary Americans, but the www.eff.org web page on how the National Security Agency's private domestic spying program works tells a different story. The government first convinced major telephone companies such as Sprint and AT&T to provide detailed call records of their customers. This was done without any judicial oversight or warrant. These phone companies also allowed the National Security Agency to install convenient transmission surveillance equipment where the NSA could analyze certain keywords or keyboard patterns and connections. No mandate has been issued for this and this violates...... middle of paper ...... here, which are relatively safe from outside prying eyes, they are called Mesh, and a mesh can be used as a cheap way to access regular internet. Thousands of communities around the world have built their own networks to prevent the government from interfering in the affairs of ordinary people. It is said that when one person manages this network, no one can shut it down. But if somehow, even if these mesh groups are private and the encryptions are broken, the mesh can connect to the regular Internet, for example via satellite, then that person can send signals back to where NSA can access to be able to set faucets. This software is likely to gain traction among terrorists here at home; it makes sense for Americans to invest in this area because of the way we live today. This parallel, global Internet is run by the people, for the people..