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Corey As a good human beings and Christians, we are taught not to gossip. We are taught eavesdropping is wrong and that we should mind our own business. It is said in Ecclesiastes, "Don't eavesdrop on the conversation of others.
What if the gossip's about you and you'd rather not hear it? You've done that a few times, haven't you said things behind someone's back you wouldn't say to his face" (7:21-22, MSG)? Now we make some exceptions for the greater good and allow law enforcement to wire tap and listen in on conversation when there is a reasonable doubt and thus a court order allowing such action.
Now if I were to find out that where i worked was being wire tapped I would want to know why and of course see the court order, for even though Ecclesiastes says we should mind our own business, Titus says to, "remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work" (3:1, ESV) and 1 Peter reminds us to, "honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor" (2:17, ESV).
In doing these things, we give a certain amount of leeway and benefit of the doubt that the authorities are doing what they do for our good. Now Snowden may have been doing what he thought was right and it was probably for the better good, however, I think he should have gone about it in a different manner.
He should have gone through the proper channels and chain of command instead of breaking the law by releasing information that was not his to release. I am a firm believer in accountability and requiring a checks and balances to prevent one person from having too much power to run free and be faced with temptations to do wrong.
Wood and Wright (2015) tell us that Snowden is not the first to bring revelation and whistleblowing about things the NSA is doing.
I don't think he'll be the last but hopefully the next one will be done in a more legal manner. Wood, D. M., & Wright, S. (2015). Before and after snowden. Surveillance & Society, 13(2), 132-138.