The Cersei Lannister Of Privacy Invasion - 2173 Words

The Cersei Lannister of Privacy Invasion: An Over-Controlling and Oppressive Watchful Government Presence Online In the television show Game of Thrones, there exists a world called Westeros and in this world, there lives a woman by the name of Cersei Lannister. At the end of the most recent season she became queen of the seven kingdoms amidst much controversy. She rules Westeros with power, control, and an authoritarian air that commands fear from her subjects. Cersei Lannister is the epitome of a ‘bully government’ and will stop at nothing to get exactly what she wants, even if it means assassinating thousands of innocent people and causing the death of at least two of her children. This sort of bully behavior may be entertaining on the television screen but what happens when art imitates life and the entities that oversee governing our nation turn into the Cersei Lannister’s of the world? Government agencies such as the CIA, FBI, and the NSA are turning into org anizations that actively spy on American citizens and they use the same sort of scare tactics that Cersei Lannister uses when a certain northern family tries to get in her way. The CIA, FBI, and the NSA use the information that we post online, what we like on Facebook, and what we tweet about on Twitter to build a profile of the American citizen. They have access to our private emails, that may or may not contain sensitive data, to our credit reports, and our medical records. They even have access to our current