Shivendra Raghav
ENGL – 1302 - 073
Dr. Johnny Stein
16 February 2015
Abstract Confidentiality
Over the last couple of decades, technology has boosted at an enormous rate. The colossal earth does not seem to be so big anymore. Internet has now bound us together in a world where all the data is congregated and analyzed. In today’s world we find ourselves being observed all the time. The government of the United States, with the help of major telecommunication companies, has been accessing private information of the clients including their private texts messages, emails and calls. This is a violation of the citizen of the United States according to the fourth amendment. The fourth amendment protects the privacy of the citizens against the government …show more content…
Many high profile leaders including President Barack Obama, have defended the NSA surveillance program. They see this program as a way to fight terrorism and believe that the program has the right balance and does not violates the rights of the citizens of the country. The president defends the surveillance program because it does not look into personal details but only relevant details, and stated that the people cannot have both, total security and total privacy. There are 30 percent of the democrats and 23 percent of the republicans supporting him too. Some may argue that the surveillance violates people’s privacy while the other people may argue that it helps to protect the citizens of the …show more content…
The surveillance was not as recent as people may think it is, we only came to know about it recently. According to a credible resource I learned that the NSA expressed its desire to use surveillance for the first time in the year 2000. It was not given the authority until after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the White House started to show its interest in the surveillance program. Then in the same year, the president of the United States authorized the program to NSA director General Michael Hayden. Since then NSA was given various powers like to record the numbers which call places like Afghanistan and also put these people in the area of their interest. With the authorization now NSA was able to keep a track of these phone number with the help of metadata provided to them by the telecom companies. This data can help them locate and keep a track of that caller at all times. Now, that these events have happened and also considering the fact that NSA general counsel stated in 2001 that the program is legal, it has propagated the idea that the surveillance system was needed. Over the last 12 years various laws have been enacted in the favor of the government surveillance program. It is not going to be an easy issue to resolve. There are majority of people against the program but those numbers have also changed in the last couple of
ENGL – 1302 - 073
Dr. Johnny Stein
16 February 2015
Abstract Confidentiality
Over the last couple of decades, technology has boosted at an enormous rate. The colossal earth does not seem to be so big anymore. Internet has now bound us together in a world where all the data is congregated and analyzed. In today’s world we find ourselves being observed all the time. The government of the United States, with the help of major telecommunication companies, has been accessing private information of the clients including their private texts messages, emails and calls. This is a violation of the citizen of the United States according to the fourth amendment. The fourth amendment protects the privacy of the citizens against the government …show more content…
Many high profile leaders including President Barack Obama, have defended the NSA surveillance program. They see this program as a way to fight terrorism and believe that the program has the right balance and does not violates the rights of the citizens of the country. The president defends the surveillance program because it does not look into personal details but only relevant details, and stated that the people cannot have both, total security and total privacy. There are 30 percent of the democrats and 23 percent of the republicans supporting him too. Some may argue that the surveillance violates people’s privacy while the other people may argue that it helps to protect the citizens of the …show more content…
The surveillance was not as recent as people may think it is, we only came to know about it recently. According to a credible resource I learned that the NSA expressed its desire to use surveillance for the first time in the year 2000. It was not given the authority until after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the White House started to show its interest in the surveillance program. Then in the same year, the president of the United States authorized the program to NSA director General Michael Hayden. Since then NSA was given various powers like to record the numbers which call places like Afghanistan and also put these people in the area of their interest. With the authorization now NSA was able to keep a track of these phone number with the help of metadata provided to them by the telecom companies. This data can help them locate and keep a track of that caller at all times. Now, that these events have happened and also considering the fact that NSA general counsel stated in 2001 that the program is legal, it has propagated the idea that the surveillance system was needed. Over the last 12 years various laws have been enacted in the favor of the government surveillance program. It is not going to be an easy issue to resolve. There are majority of people against the program but those numbers have also changed in the last couple of