Imagine that all personal information such as social security numbers, past private conversations, and password information was able to be legally taken by the government as long as they claimed they had a good reason for it. Now, imagine that because of the government allowing themselves this power they also make your information unsecure and more easily attainable by hackers. If the United States government gets their way this scenario will be played out. In the past months of 2016, the government has made a big issue of being able to access all information on technology devices, such as smartphones and computers. The reason they are concerned about this is because most popular companies who create computer hardware and software have put
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government to be able to view the information anytime they please. This to the tech-illiterate person may not seem like a big deal, but unfortunately, this creates more problems than solutions as it develops holes in the encrypted program that would make hacking products easier. According to The Center for Technology and National Security Policy in 2009 alone the United States held 40% of all new stored information, therefore we cannot afford to have our products be any less secure. Plus, as the government is the target of hacking attempts all the time, the chance of somebody breaking in and stealing their encryption keys is way too …show more content…
This option is a proposed bill that is titled “The Compliance Act of 2016,” it simply states that if the government needs to get into any device or program that the company who created it will be forced by law to help the government achieve their goal. This is an issue because people will lose the sense of privacy when using tech products and that will hurt sales. Worst yet, people from other countries will be less likely to buy from American tech companies because their privacy could be violated. That is millions of dollars that could possibly be lost from the U.S. economy just because the government wants more security. Terrorists will still be able to use non-American made tech products to communicate outside the U.S. and the government would still be unable to do anything about it. We would only make ourselves more unsecure and insecure with our
government to be able to view the information anytime they please. This to the tech-illiterate person may not seem like a big deal, but unfortunately, this creates more problems than solutions as it develops holes in the encrypted program that would make hacking products easier. According to The Center for Technology and National Security Policy in 2009 alone the United States held 40% of all new stored information, therefore we cannot afford to have our products be any less secure. Plus, as the government is the target of hacking attempts all the time, the chance of somebody breaking in and stealing their encryption keys is way too …show more content…
This option is a proposed bill that is titled “The Compliance Act of 2016,” it simply states that if the government needs to get into any device or program that the company who created it will be forced by law to help the government achieve their goal. This is an issue because people will lose the sense of privacy when using tech products and that will hurt sales. Worst yet, people from other countries will be less likely to buy from American tech companies because their privacy could be violated. That is millions of dollars that could possibly be lost from the U.S. economy just because the government wants more security. Terrorists will still be able to use non-American made tech products to communicate outside the U.S. and the government would still be unable to do anything about it. We would only make ourselves more unsecure and insecure with our