Invasion of Privacy?

For the past 10 years, we have been worried about terrorist attacks and the age of the Internet has been up for debate if we should monitor emails and other private sectors to find those plotting against us. Not only this but other things that need to be monitored like pornography, hate groups, viruses, hackers, and other things that we are concerned about on the world wide web. “According to Miller, (1996) the FBI is using a program called Carnivore to randomly monitor all email. Carnivore could eventually be modified to allow individuals to monitor chat conversations, news posts, and peer-to-peer networks online.” They do this monitoring program by looking for keywords in the emails. Emails should be protected by our right to privacy, but the law passed in 1994 says that emails stored in the computer do not follow this. The military does have programs that are trained to find a terrorist threat within the Internet. Many people are against this kind of invasion of privacy. “According to the ACLU ‘to accept the FBI’s arguments in favor of Carnivore is to reject that core premise of the Fourth Amendment by giving the FBI carte blanche access to the communications of innocent people”’ Jeremy Benetham invented the Panopticon model to monitor cities, prisons and other types of dangerous areas. Is the Internet turning into this?