Concrete evidence floats to the surface; a hope emerges from cloud of despair. Yet, the evidence is meaningless and hope gets electrocuted by the ionic discharge from clouds. Edward Snowden leaked information about the mass surveillance by NSA on 2013. Two years later the surveillance still continues and Snowden is a refugee in Russia. Billions of emails, messages, searches ,VOIP etc still get scrutinized by NSA today. Every Second NSA selects 100 Gigabyte of data for review.
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself”(Orwell 283). Although that quote may have sounded hyperbolic when it was first written, today it seems as if dystopian novel had the right idea after all. Privacy is a luxury and vast majority of …show more content…
It seems as if department of defense is jumping through all the hoofs and co-ordinating with organisations around the world to defend itself from its own people. It feels as if the governments really believes that its greatest enemy is its own citizen. Although surveillance might hold some merit, in its present form the mass surveillance is certainly on the wrong track. In Harvard Law School National Security Journal, Austen D. Givens talks about the ratchet effect, He talks about how once an anti terrorism law is made, it is difficult to scale back and the law may get misused or misinterpreted with time, the laws that were designed for a particular use can expand and change into something else entirely.This how mass surveillance by NSA came into being() Mass surveillance in its current shape is so intrusive, one can only imagine what will happen when it evolves into something that will become an even more powerful disputant to our privacy. Thus being complacent on the issue of NSA will make the problem much worse in …show more content…
Surveillance is illegal but it still happens. Right to privacy is being infringed, several companies are forced to give up data under various threats, laws are being broken.
The irony is that people in charge of upholding law are responsible for breaking it. The interpretation and definition of law changes as per the agenda of NSA. As George Orwell mentioned in “1984” that even the value of two plus two is not constant, it changes its value as per the mind of party, its value is the value which suits party the best.()
Mass surveillance hasn’t proven itself to be effective either. All it has succeeded in doing is abuse its power by spying on millions of innocent people and create paranoia. In review of the telephone records collection, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board could not even identify a single case in which the telephone records program made an appreciable difference in the outcome of a counterterrorism
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself”(Orwell 283). Although that quote may have sounded hyperbolic when it was first written, today it seems as if dystopian novel had the right idea after all. Privacy is a luxury and vast majority of …show more content…
It seems as if department of defense is jumping through all the hoofs and co-ordinating with organisations around the world to defend itself from its own people. It feels as if the governments really believes that its greatest enemy is its own citizen. Although surveillance might hold some merit, in its present form the mass surveillance is certainly on the wrong track. In Harvard Law School National Security Journal, Austen D. Givens talks about the ratchet effect, He talks about how once an anti terrorism law is made, it is difficult to scale back and the law may get misused or misinterpreted with time, the laws that were designed for a particular use can expand and change into something else entirely.This how mass surveillance by NSA came into being() Mass surveillance in its current shape is so intrusive, one can only imagine what will happen when it evolves into something that will become an even more powerful disputant to our privacy. Thus being complacent on the issue of NSA will make the problem much worse in …show more content…
Surveillance is illegal but it still happens. Right to privacy is being infringed, several companies are forced to give up data under various threats, laws are being broken.
The irony is that people in charge of upholding law are responsible for breaking it. The interpretation and definition of law changes as per the agenda of NSA. As George Orwell mentioned in “1984” that even the value of two plus two is not constant, it changes its value as per the mind of party, its value is the value which suits party the best.()
Mass surveillance hasn’t proven itself to be effective either. All it has succeeded in doing is abuse its power by spying on millions of innocent people and create paranoia. In review of the telephone records collection, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board could not even identify a single case in which the telephone records program made an appreciable difference in the outcome of a counterterrorism