Sinha has experience in the law and has been very open to sharing his thoughts on the NSA. Sinha’s is very against the NSA. His reason, the NSA is intruding on the rights of Americans to have privacy. He believes that the right to privacy is one of the most important rights that Americans can possess. “Article 17 of the ICCPR protects the human right to privacy.”…
Post 9/11 Privacy Rights: The Case Against Electronic Surveillance In response to concerns about terrorism after the attacks on September 11,2001, the government of the United States enacted new guidelines for conducting surveillance on the public. This paper will discuss the implementation of electronic surveillance as a tool to combat terrorism and will make the case against sweeping electronic surveillance of American citizens and others in this country. Various examples of increased surveillance along with decreasing privacy right will help the reader to conclude that these tactics have not reduced incidents of any type of crime, including terrorism. This paper will also discuss several types of electronic surveillance, including the collection of metadata from telephone records, which intruded on the private lives of citizens and did not increase their safety in any meaningful way.…
In The United States of America the National Security Agency has been working for ages to assure that the country is safe, but recently it has become a rising concern that they have overstepped their boundaries of American citizen’s privacy by operating surveillance technology all around the country and storing data form every phone call of citizens. With the American Citizens’ privacy at stake, each branch of government took its stand against the matter. The Judicial Branch has to come up with a legal compromise; the Legislative Branch and Congress are working to make surveillance laws that would better please its citizens, and the Executive Branch and the president have agreed to come up with an alternative to Section 215 of The Patriot Act. The Supreme Court has to establish a legal compromise to the surveillance of the American citizens considering it was said that what the National Security Agency/Central Security was doing went against Section 215 of the Patriot Act.…
(Clench 2013) The program is referred by the Bush administration as the terrorist surveillance program which is a subprogram of the more extensive President’s Surveillance Program. Under this program, the NSA was authorized by executive order to surveil, without any search warrants, the phone calls, Internet activity (browsing, e-mail, chats, etc.), text messages,…
Josh Rozdolsky Saleh The Patriot Act United States History What would everyday life look like when the government can look through everyone's private information? The Patriot Act violates Civil Liberties and is Unconstitutional by restricting the First Amendment and Fourth Amendment rights of Americans. The Patriot Act violates freedom of religion and speech.…
There are many challenges that law enforcement agencies faces when it comes to enforcing public safety at the same time protect the rights of individuals. Balancing civil liberties and fighting terrorism is a delicate task that is affecting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The focus is the of involvement relationship between public safety and individual rights. The first topic is the statutory authority and responsibilities of government officials, security personnel, and private citizens. The next topic involves the practices or laws relating to search, seizures, and surveillance by police, corrections, private citizens, and security personnel.…
Having surveillance means that the government has the right to watch and record basically everything people do. The government put video cameras up in schools, buildings, stoplights, and satellites covering virtually everywhere. According to Alex Sinha (2013) NSA, the National Security Agency, started collecting as much information and data as possible from permanent residence in the United States in hopes of reducing the odds of another terrorist attack (p. 862). In 2013, Sinah also claimed in the early 1960s, NSA began keeping a “watch list” which was a list of American citizens who were traveling to Cuba and were questionable to pose a danger to the President (p.864). Sinha (2013) then goes on to state in 1967 the watch list turned into a systematic attempt to track those Americans who were questioned to be involved in a civil disturbance.…
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially curtail its domestic surveillance. Plan: The government will curtail its surveillance by only viewing collected data by means of a warrant. Intro-After the NSA reported their first transparency avowal, the publisher Omicron Technology Limited stated, “The report said 19,212 "national security letters"—administrative subpoenas that allow the FBI to collect information without a warrant—were issued last year, containing 38,832 requests for information.” These unwarranted leaks are why this problem needs to be solved. That is why we stand resolved that “The United States federal government should substantially curtain its domestic surveillance.…
Chapter 8 – Local vs. National Authority In Chapter 8 of Thirteen American Arguments, Fineman discusses the tensions between local and national authority. (a) List five issues that Fineman deals with directly in the book and briefly describe how each of those issues create tension between local and national authority. Hurricane Katrina revealed a fault in American politics. Although they had predicted the dangers, neither the federal government nor the state government was in command.…
After 9/11, The United States was very intent on fighting and stopping terrorism and terrorist attacks. In order to help fight terrorism a bill called The Patriot Act was passed to help fight terrorism. Since then problems have arrived with the passing of this bill, problems that lead to questioning the legitimacy of The Patriot Act. If The Patriot Act was justified, then Edward Snowden would not have had to do what he did. The United States needs supervision while enforcing The Patriot Act to make sure the right of every citizen is protected and that they do not overstep their boundaries.…
The surveillance program is effective with preventing terrorist attacks, but this violates the Fourth Amendment right because they are collecting data from everywhere and everyone around the country. According to the News Team staff of cfr.org people are starting to revolt against these outraeous and unlawful actions. Judge Richard J. Leon said “ surely such a program infringes that degree of privacy, that our founding fathers enshrined in the Fourth Amendment” (www.cfr.org). After, the exposure of the NSA in the mid-2013 American citizens have started to protest against these unlawful actions and development movements to protect their right of…
President? The United States was blind-sighted in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack which resulted in the death of 2,977 innocent Americans. This was the largest attack in the history of the U.S. on our soil and although the signs were there for the intelligence community to see, it was mistakenly not put together. Much of the attack stemmed from communications between terrorist or those connected and working with terrorist within our Country, and this was unacceptable. In order to defend against such communications, according to Lichtblau & Risen (2005), “Under a presidential order signed in 2002, the intelligence agency has monitored the international telephone calls and international e-mail messages of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States without warrants over the past three years in an effort to track possible ‘dirty numbers’ linked to Al Qaeda, the officials said. The agency, they said, still seeks warrants to monitor entirely domestic communications”.…
Whereas constitutionality of government surveillance is questionable, these laws, along with the countless other sections and statutes in and related to the PATRIOT Act, permit government agencies, under scrutiny, of course, to conduct surveillance to protect our country from terrorist threats and…
Forward: When Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA was spying on us in 2012, I expected people to be outraged. I expected a massive public backlash that would lead to reform. By and large, the public’s reaction has been underwhelming. For one reason or another, government surveillance is a topic that many people don’t know about or don’t talk about. I’ve talked to people about surveillance before, and many of them were unaware of key details about it.…
Another example why many people do not accept surveillance is because it has also affect the people by causing discrimination against one another. Greenwald also states “Some of the surveillance was ostensibly devoted to terrorism suspects. But great quantities of the program manifestation have nothing to do with national security.” (94) In this quote Greenwald says that many of the programs have nothing to do with national security because they don’t just see the information or everything there surveillance is capturing the government is saving everything not for a day nor a week but for years and this is information that they don’t need to have.…