Should Japanese citizens have their privacy?

“Once you’ve lost your privacy, you realize you’ve lost an extremely valuable thing. ” In Today’s world, the Internet is a very essential part of everyone’s life. Almost everyone has an IOT (Internet of Things) devices. But as we process further people are getting careless about their privacy and consider their privacy not important and causing their information to be leak everywhere. But it is also due to badly written computer code where the hackers can easily breach into anyone’s computer.

Japanese Government found this very problematic so they decided to take matters into their own hands by hacking their own citizens through an unprecedented survey of more than 200 million IOT devices. Japan’s fear is confirmed. Around last year, the Japanese Government passed a law where they enable mass hack, as part of security preparations ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications(MIAC) confirmed that two-thirds of cyber attacks in Japan in 2016 were targeted at IOT devices. Government officers fear some kind of threat of cyber attack which could be used in the Olympics.

The US Government should see this opportunity to learn from their mistakes as the problem which Japan is tackling is a global one. As
its citizens were not certainly pleased as US is still recovering from the shock of Snowden’s NSA revelations and the recent data privacy allegations against companies like Facebook. Hence the U.S. government should definitely refrain from following in the footsteps of Japan unless it wants its citizens to completely lose their faith in the government. 

I think this action is against the basic human rights of its citizens because the government can see anything that their citizens are doing and going through their personal information. But for the Japanese Government is helpful because they should increase their cybersecurity not breach into anyone’s computer. Apart from that, it also increases the potential hackers to take advantage of this survey by deploying fake ‘phishing’ emails that can trick users into installing malware in their own IOT devices.