Edward Snowden Violations

When the whole incident with Snowden was going on, I was a sophomore in high school. I really wasn’t paying attention to what was going on but I had a little bit of a general idea that someone leaked United States secrets and was now in Russia but that was about it. I didn’t know what these secrets were about or why someone would release them. I do remember that around the same time, there was some serious tension between the U.S. and Russia and that was so bad that Winter Olympic athletes were telling family members not to come watch them. The whole situation with Snowden probably did not help this situation much. Anyway, the movies main topic of the amount of surveillance kept on the Americans and others around the world raises a lot of …show more content…
I can imagine that people would not want to help you if you don’t trust them and feel the need to spy on them. The debate of whether what Edward Snowden did was the right or wrong thing also seems kind of up in the air. Obviously releasing the information that he did got the U.S. government into quite a bit of trouble with other countries and angered many of its own citizens, but are the government’s actions of disregarding the rights of the people justified if it is for the sake of protecting the country. Personally, I don’t think it is with the extent that government has surveillance on everything and how much data they are actually keeping. It is also pretty unethical in the way that they use it to negatively impact innocent people’s lives if the movie accurately portrayed the targeting of the one banker from the middle east and his daughter. Also,as much as we want to be informed about what our government is doing, we do have to agree that there is some extent where it is okay for the general public not to know because it would actually be counterproductive to their safety, which raises the question of where we draw the