The fourth amendment of our Constitution states: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, house, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause.” But in a case involving Edward Snowden, a now famous leaker of classified National Security Administration (NSA) surveillance operator, this amendment was challenged. The NSA Prism Program is used to gain private information from all Americans no matter whether it is from private facebook messengers, private emails, private texts, or even private phone calls. Mr. Snowden tells reports that he and the Prism Program team have private information tracing back up to seven years ago from American’s using Verizon network. Legal
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The NSA is violating the 4th Amendment because they are using this kind of surveillance to receive their data. This form of mass surveillance belittles civil liberties and then establishes a baseline where ordinary citizens have their private communications searched. To make surveillance more ethical, one man by the name of, David Omand, suggested there should be six principles: “ more sufficient sustainable cause.” This meaning that if there is any way for secrets to be told which were unjustified what may result in harm, the national interest need to be checked. “There must be integrity of motivation: there should be no hidden plans.” “The methods used must be proportionate, for example: by using only minimum intrusion necessary into the private affair of others.” “There must be right and lawful authority.” “There must be reasonable prospect of success.” In other words, intelligence need to carefully risk management, and before give consequences on what would happen if something went wrong. Lastly, “recourse to secret intelligence must be a last resort: there should be no reasonable other way of acquiring the information by non-secret
The NSA is violating the 4th Amendment because they are using this kind of surveillance to receive their data. This form of mass surveillance belittles civil liberties and then establishes a baseline where ordinary citizens have their private communications searched. To make surveillance more ethical, one man by the name of, David Omand, suggested there should be six principles: “ more sufficient sustainable cause.” This meaning that if there is any way for secrets to be told which were unjustified what may result in harm, the national interest need to be checked. “There must be integrity of motivation: there should be no hidden plans.” “The methods used must be proportionate, for example: by using only minimum intrusion necessary into the private affair of others.” “There must be right and lawful authority.” “There must be reasonable prospect of success.” In other words, intelligence need to carefully risk management, and before give consequences on what would happen if something went wrong. Lastly, “recourse to secret intelligence must be a last resort: there should be no reasonable other way of acquiring the information by non-secret