Implemented by Senator Ted Kennedy and signed into law by President Carter in 1978 “The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was introduced to sanction procedures for requesting judicial approval for electronic surveillance and physical search of persons engaged in espionage or international terrorism against the United States on behalf of a foreign power. But in 2013, a young contractor/whistleblower named Edward Snowden released a series of detailed disclosures of internal documents to the public about the NSA (National Security Agency) regarding its spying techniques on international and domestic activities using the said law. The article written by Bruce Schneider in the IEEE journal for the September 2015 Issue “Ubiquitous Surveillance and Security” focuses on the severity of the matter.
One of the reports that came to light regarding documents leaked by Snowden mentions that the NSA collects cell phone records of every American. When inquired, the NSA said that they weren’t prying but was simply collecting metadata. By which they meant that they weren’t listening to every conversation (words) an individual has but just the phone numbers …show more content…
It collects the most intimate data for surveillance. It’s understood that one doesn’t lie to its search engine for we always type exactly what we need. One might say google knows you better than you do. What makes a google search engine a risk is that though you are able to see you google searches with your login you have no authority to delete them .In an interview with John Oliver , Snowden explained how google search engine works .He said “Google moves data from data center to data center—invisibly to use without your knowledge—your data could be moved outside the borders of the United States, temporarily. When your junk was passed by Gmail, the NSA caught a copy of that… PRISM is how they pull your junk out of Google with Google’s
One of the reports that came to light regarding documents leaked by Snowden mentions that the NSA collects cell phone records of every American. When inquired, the NSA said that they weren’t prying but was simply collecting metadata. By which they meant that they weren’t listening to every conversation (words) an individual has but just the phone numbers …show more content…
It collects the most intimate data for surveillance. It’s understood that one doesn’t lie to its search engine for we always type exactly what we need. One might say google knows you better than you do. What makes a google search engine a risk is that though you are able to see you google searches with your login you have no authority to delete them .In an interview with John Oliver , Snowden explained how google search engine works .He said “Google moves data from data center to data center—invisibly to use without your knowledge—your data could be moved outside the borders of the United States, temporarily. When your junk was passed by Gmail, the NSA caught a copy of that… PRISM is how they pull your junk out of Google with Google’s