The American government has diverged from its original intent; it is no longer the "land of the free and the home of the brave." Over the years, the government has succeeded in cultivating a nation culture of uncertainty and terror. It has produced generations upon generations that are fixed in an unconscious state of fear whilst their freedoms have been ripped from their grasp. As a nation state that claims to be a “democracy," America has unquestionably failed in its futile endeavors. Its government has reached the state where it no longer cares about the sentiments and the intrinsic values of its Bill of Rights nor its national constituents. However, the initial stages of this inevitable downfall does not rest solely upon the shoulders of the government. Over the course of many years, the government and its mouthpiece-the media-have become the puppets of a greater evil-corporations. Together, the media, the government and corporations have created institutional and systematic methods to oppress the citizens of America. They profit from the exploitation of the defenseless. And they do so with little regard for the rights that have been endowed on the American people by the nation’s forefathers. The most blatant way that this trilateral system exploits the American people is through the flagrant invasion of privacy. There has been an overwhelming increase in the collection and analysis of personal data and information done by the government. However, the tragedy does not end there. The attitudes of many people in America, who may or may not be aware of the consistent abrasion of their rights and liberties, are frighteningly indifferent. Daniel J. Solove in his book, "Nothing to Hide," explores the “nothing to hide” argument that many citizens employ. Supporters of this argument state that they have nothing to hide. And only those who are accused of doing something questionable and wrong see the utmost necessity for privacy. Those who are not guilty of any criminalities should not have the need to keep anything private and those that do have something incriminating, do not deserve the right to said privacy. This has become the primary retort against privacy advocates who interject that the government has been increasingly pretentious and unconstitutional-taking away the rights of the people. Many are under the impression that their compliance with these unconstitutional practices, employed by the government, will somehow aid in the effort to locate terrorists. Solove tells of a particular blogger who states that information about him was readily available because he had nothing to hide. And more importantly, because he was a supporter of the government’s efforts to find terrorists; he saw this was an excusable reason for the government to monitor his personal phone calls. This is the kind of arguments that are heard continuously across America. In a similar article, Solove reiterates that privacy indeed does matter by musing: “’so do you have curtains?" or "can I see your credit-card bills for the last year?" It’s not about having anything to hide, it’s about things not being anyone else’s business” (Chronicle). Solove proves that is very simple to dismantle and dismiss the nothing-to-hide argument, simply be