Pros And Cons Of National Security Agency

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National Security Agency (NSA) can withdraw any information from the following list of the U.S. Service Providers; Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype YouTube and Apple. Everyone at least uses these two to ten times a day, especially teens who chain themselves to social media. The U.S. Service Provider, Microsoft, began collecting data for six years and when attackers in Congress found changes in the FISA Amendments Act, any lawmaker who knew about PRISM or NSA been obligated by promise to hold their tongue (Gellman, Poitras, @0143). Who in what mind would want to do that? No one wants to feel a cold breath against their skin that makes them shiver of fear from not being protected by people they

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