government had been using dragnet surveillance to surveil most calls, texts, emails, and video chats that occurred within the U.S., what is interesting is that more citizens from the United States were being surveilled than citizens from Russia. While there is less population in Russia it is still interesting to see that more of the United States’ citizens were being spied on. There was only slightly more spying occurred in china than the US. In a 30 day period 97 billion internet records were collected, and 124 billion telephone company records were collected from their worldwide surveillance systems. There are 300 million American Citizens recorded in those numbers as well, it was not released how much of the combined 221 billion records
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The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is essentially the start of mass surveillance in the …show more content…
The FISA court does hand out warrants to the government to spy without going to congress, there is a period of up to 14 days where surveillance can go on without there being a warrant given to the government and this is something that should be alarming. If the FISA court did not agree with what the government was spying on then there is billions of records that have already been collected in that time. According to those who work in the government whose emails and conversations have been leaked it only takes a matter of hours to obtain a FISA court order. FISA allows this period because they claim to know that it is not always easily obtainable at a moment’s notice when the surveillance must begin then. We began with foreign intelligence, then moved our way into domestic surveillance, most of which, is done without a warrant. Then PRISM became a program that was used, this was the main source of the metadata collection and it created a searchable record of hundreds of millions of Americans records. A lot of this bulk metadata was supplied by the companies we use most often including Google, Verizon, Facebook and
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is essentially the start of mass surveillance in the …show more content…
The FISA court does hand out warrants to the government to spy without going to congress, there is a period of up to 14 days where surveillance can go on without there being a warrant given to the government and this is something that should be alarming. If the FISA court did not agree with what the government was spying on then there is billions of records that have already been collected in that time. According to those who work in the government whose emails and conversations have been leaked it only takes a matter of hours to obtain a FISA court order. FISA allows this period because they claim to know that it is not always easily obtainable at a moment’s notice when the surveillance must begin then. We began with foreign intelligence, then moved our way into domestic surveillance, most of which, is done without a warrant. Then PRISM became a program that was used, this was the main source of the metadata collection and it created a searchable record of hundreds of millions of Americans records. A lot of this bulk metadata was supplied by the companies we use most often including Google, Verizon, Facebook and