9/11 National Security

After the event of 9/11 it catalyzed a nation wide awareness of national security. In the face of this devastation, a conversation began regarding the national security at the expense of privacy. As the years progressed this world of data mining and collection began to grow and extend beyond itself. With the fear of terrorism engrained into political topic, the encroachment of privacy became a concern for an average American. This world of interconnected compilation of information became a vast resource, one where the government didn’t have full control, and one where others had access. As a result, this resource had many potential benefits and possible detriments to the United States. This is an extreme conflict promoting turmoil in the nationwide conversation of the cost of privacy for the benefits of others. Citizens under the U.S. Constitution have civil rights as explicitly stated in the Bill of Rights. Therefore, many question the jurisdiction of government in their power to access sensitive information. In response to the nation wide devastation of 9/11 the U.S. government began to emphasize national security in two forms. The first was …show more content…
The role of data mining is to be able to analyze this data to identify trends or to monitor unusual activity. By utilizing data mining, criminal activity can be monitored and apprehended, possible identification of terrorist threats, and analysis of this data can be used as a deciding factor in innovations to benefit the economy. The primary benefit of data mining is to provide statistical data and information that the government can monitor for unusual and possible terrorist activity (Thuraisingham 3). However, this plentiful resource of information can be employed to implement an efficient business model, marketing, or providing trend analysis for innovations that can benefit the consumerism economy (Walker