Summary of Privacy by Chuck McCutcheon a freelance writer based in Washington, D.C.
The controlling idea of the article is centralized around the invasion of privacy committed by the government, big corporations and hackers. The author uses the following statements to support his controlling idea. The author talks about the access government has to data, McCutcheon (2014) said:
In leaks to The Washington Post and The Guardian newspaper in Britain, Snowden revealed that the NSA was using a program called PRISM to amass data on people across the globe, including their email, Facebook posts and instant messages. A separate program collected bulk customer phone records from U.S. phone service providers — specifically the numbers
The controlling idea of the article is centralized around the invasion of privacy committed by the government, big corporations and hackers. The author uses the following statements to support his controlling idea. The author talks about the access government has to data, McCutcheon (2014) said:
In leaks to The Washington Post and The Guardian newspaper in Britain, Snowden revealed that the NSA was using a program called PRISM to amass data on people across the globe, including their email, Facebook posts and instant messages. A separate program collected bulk customer phone records from U.S. phone service providers — specifically the numbers