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To what extent does the Government have in monitoring the internet of U.S. citizens, and how far will it go to be stopped? The U.S. citizens do have privacy rights but how much do they really protect U.S. citizens from the Government? Most privacy rights are protected by law and it is illegal to reveal facts about someone by monitoring their phones, computer, etc. if they user is not aware of being spied on. I believe that the government should not completely have the right to monitor the U.S. citizen’s internet.
The National Security Agency is reported to be scanning emails that have been sent to friends, family members, and spouses overseas to monitor what is being
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They believe that they are helping the situation. With people now using all sorts of social media apps like Snapchat, Instagram, twitter, Facebook etc. These apps include a special setting which allows the user to enable their profiles to be private or open to the public which includes allowing everyone to see what is being posted unless the other that is viewing is blocked. There are about 150 million people using snapchat in the recent years of it coming out in September of 2011. (kastrenakes, 2016) I believe that snapchat has definitely became the new way of communication only allowing the user to put their picture for ten seconds or less and sending out to the world or only allowing their friends and family to view. The privacy policy of snapchat states, ""Our Privacy Policy continues to say that those messages are automatically deleted from our servers once we detect that they have been viewed or have expired.' snapchats policy also states the receiver of the snapchat can screenshot the snap they received from the user which could be the only downfall to snapchat and to the user's privacy. Snapchat said it produced at least some of the data 92% of the time for when the U.S. law enforcement requested it only. (griffith,
Edward Snowden is America’s most recent controversial figure. People can’t decide if he is their hero or traitor. Nevertheless, his leaks on the U.S. government surveillance program, PRISM, demand an explanation. Many American citizens have been enraged by the thought of the government tracing their telecommunication systems. According to factbrowser.com 54% of internet users would rather have more online privacy, even at the risk of security (Facts Tagged with Privacy). They say it is an infringement on their privacy rights of the constitution. However, some of them don’t mind; they believe it will help thwart the acts of terrorists. Both sides make a good point, but the inevitable future is one where the government is adapting as technology is changing. In order for us to continue living in the new digital decade, we must accept the government’s ability to surveil us.
Whether the U.S. government should strongly keep monitoring U.S. citizens or not still is a long and fierce dispute. Recently, the debate became more brutal when technology, an indispensable tool for modern live, has been used by the law enforcement and national security officials to spy into American people’s domestic.
In June 2013, Edward Snowden revealed an unauthorized disclosure to The Guardian in an interview about a warrantless action of the government, that NSA has been accessing through the world's nine biggest internet companies to collect data works from citizens. The datas are draw and analyze by NSA from citizen's personal informations such as audios, videos, pictures, e-mails, instant messages, documented files, social network activities, and contact informations. In this surveillance plan, there are two secret program. One is to monitor citizens' network activities, and the second is to monitor through citizens' telephone call records. This is the largest monitoring project that had ever happened in the history of America and it really staggered the public.
With new forms of social media, such as Snapchat, coming out on a regular basis, people are now moving on from
As of June 30, 2012, there are more than two million Internet users around the world (“World Internet Users Statistics Usage and World Population Stats”). The National Security Agency (NSA) has been tracking U.S. citizens since 2005 ("EFF NSA Spying | Electronic Frontier Foundation"). They are supposedly to only track suspects and dangerous people, but instead have dug deep into the life of the innocent. Although their intentions may be morally correct, the NSA is jeopardizing the private information from the Internet and because of that must be outlawed to protect the people of the United States.
Domestic Surveillance Citizens feeling protected in their own nation is a crucial factor for the development and advancement of that nation. The United States’ government has been able to provide this service for a small tax and for the most part it is money well spent. Due to events leading up to the terrifying attacks on September 11, 2001 and following these attacks, the Unites States’ government has begun enacting certain laws and regulations that ensure the safety of its citizens. From the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978 to the most recent National Security Agency scandal, the government has attempted and for the most part succeeded in keeping domestic safety under control. Making sure that the balance between obtaining enough intelligence to protect the safety of the nation and the preservation of basic human rights is not extremely skewed, Congress has set forth requisites in FISA which aim to balance the conflicting goals of privacy and security; but the timeline preceding this act has been anything but honorable for the United States government.
"The uncensored, tantalizing, wondrous mind of the Internet shall be observed carefully. It is not so much about removing our privacy, it is about preserving our safety. Not having the government monitor search engines and ambitious websites is the error. With the constant threats of terrorism and our fate uncertain with the rise of murder rates and crime, we cannot afford not have them keep the Internet under surveillance.
The government gives each American citizen a set of unalienable rights that protect them from the government’s power. These rights cannot be broken, yet the government violates the Fourth Amendment daily to find ways to spy on the American public under the guise of protecting against terrorism. In 2007 President Obama said the American administration “acts like violating civil liberties is the way to enhance our securities – it is not.” Americans need to understand that their privacy is worth the fight. The people need to tell their neighbors, their congressmen, and their senators that they will not allow their internet privacy to be violated by needless spying. American citizens deserve the rights given to them and need to fight for the right to keep them by changing privacy laws to include Internet privacy.
According to Alternet Jim Hightower article "8 Terrifying Facts About NSA Surveillance.” In his days as an analyst, Snowden could get into any American’s internet – even the President’s (Hightower). The NSA has access to surveillance systems across the United States. People believe they are using them to spy on activities such as who you are calling, the places you are going, and what you do on the internet. This is not done to invade your privacy, but to protect and serve those in America. The government should be allowed to use surveillance to maintain order because cameras reduce crime rates, better our society, and furnish evidence and congregate indicators.
However, government agencies, especially in America, continue to lobby for increased surveillance capabilities, particularly as technologies change and move in the direction of social media. Communications surveillance has extended to Internet and digital communications. law enforcement agencies, like the NSA, have required internet providers and telecommunications companies to monitor users’ traffic. Many of these activities are performed under ambiguous legal basis and remain unknown to the general public, although the media’s recent preoccupation with these surveillance and privacy issues is a setting a trending agenda.
" A U.S. citizen’s right to privacy is apparent in Amendment IV of the Constitution, where it states that “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated"" (U.S. Const.). In the modern day, the government is obligated to extend this protection beyond its original intentions, especially to the internet. On the web, there is a greater amount of personal information that can be shared or leaked, leading to a greater opportunity for monitoring. Over the past two decades, this issue has created a controversy: both the innocent and the guilty have been subject to surveillance. In cases where this monitoring is justified—when probable cause
Drawing on the work of Foucault, discuss the claim that ‘we live in a surveillance society’.
At what level is Internet surveillance by the United States government acceptable to society, considering a balance between security and privacy, what are the short and long term implications, and how does it affect the rest of the world.
A major reason the U.S. needs to increase restrictions on the type and amount of data collected on individuals from the internet is due to the fact that the United States government can track communications and browsing histories of private citizens without warrant or cause. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, ...
Today, society is affected by the many advances in technology. These advances affect almost every person in the world. One of the prevalent advances in technology was the invention and mass use of the Internet. Today more than ever, people around the world use the Internet to support their personal and business tasks on a daily basis. The Internet is a portal into vast amounts of information concerning almost every aspect of life including education, business, politics, entertainment, social networking, and world security. (idebate.com) Although the Internet has become a key resource in developing the world, the mass use of Internet has highlighted a major problem, privacy and the protection of individual, corporate, and even government security . The argument over whether or not the Internet should be controlled by the government has developed into a controversial issue in almost every country in the world.