Benign snooping !

       Right to privacy,right to the freedom of expression , right of the State to secure its citizens have all suffered or thrived on how it is   interpreted.In 1644, during the English Civil  War, poet John Milton called on the parliament , to bring  to an end the state licensing of newspapers.That notion of liberty of free speech being above all liberties, endured for centuries ,till technology undid all. Julian Assange had his own view on politically sensitive correspondence now it is Snowden on the universal  eavesdropping by US government .Rupert Murdoch thought nothing of hacking into private telephone conversations, voice-mails, sms , yielding  rich dividends for his papers.Today governments snoop under the pretention of  national security being "paramount " over every other liberty !.Even as the  modern netizen twitters his private thoughts, the government strangely argues that conventional sense of privacy may not apply.The two Mumbai girls arrested on 19 Nov 2012 for their personal comments in Facebook ,will testify to it. But the one from Ahmedabad must be the most benign and well intended. No wonder ATMs there are far safer than Bengaluru !