NSA Should be Shut Down
The National Security Agency (NSA) is created in 1952 to protect national communication systems and seek information about foreign government’s secret communications. The organization consist a large amount of the workforce, which they design cryptographic systems to guard national security and spy on foreign governments’ movements. However, NSA became more strict with tighter security on all the American citizens after the 9/11 attack. NSA has taken away people’s freedom by spying on everyone’s action in the United States, and the Patriot Act legalized the NSA invasion on the citizens’ privacy (Rouse). Not only the NSA makes people uncomfortable, the government spends excessive amounts of money on it and still cannot …show more content…
NSA surveillance, phone calls, messages, and any social networking record the individual actions by NSA. People tend to share their feelings and what they are doing openly on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. However, not everything is meant to be shared, some are too personal to share. The NSA collects personal data of the citizens such as being recorded in government surveillance cameras, collect phone numbers, activities, and movements on social networks. In the article, “Need for National Security Threatens Citizens’ Privacy”, the author stated, “Our personal privacy is coming increasingly under threat, as our lives are constantly monitored without our knowledge” (O’Cleirigh). The author ironically stated that our personal privacy is under threat, not our lives. It is true because as the government focus on the national security by spying on citizens, people start to feel insecure toward their own the government. Personal privacy is very important for each individual, so the government should respect that. They cannot justify their reason as “for the national security” to destroy that individual’s personal privacy. Moreover, they could use the citizens’ or foreign leaders’ personal data to blackmail if the citizens and foreign leaders are against the government’s policies (O’Cleirigh). In the article “Need for national security threatens citizens’ privacy”, the author explained that the …show more content…
Although the budget figure is classified, a former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked the information in 2013. The information includes about the government spying on everyone in the country and the foreign leaders, and the budget spending on the government spy organizations was leaked too. The “details of the $52.6 billion request for 2013 by America’s 16 spy agencies were revealed by the Washington Post. The NSA has requested $10.45 billion from Congress…” (MacAskill & Watts). That is about 20 percent of the government spy agency’s total budget. Even though the large amount of funding is spent on NSA, it has failed to prevent all the crimes. Since NSA is collecting citizens’ phone calls, surveillance cameras, personal data from online, etc. the information is flooded it in the system. That makes the organization incapable of narrowing down the actual threats and terrorists. In the article, “Point: The NSA’s Surveillance Programs Undermine National Security Efforts” stated, “indiscriminate data collection is inefficient and ineffective for identifying potential terrorist threats”. With all the data that NSA collects from citizens, it makes harder for the system to find the real
The National Security Agency (NSA) is created in 1952 to protect national communication systems and seek information about foreign government’s secret communications. The organization consist a large amount of the workforce, which they design cryptographic systems to guard national security and spy on foreign governments’ movements. However, NSA became more strict with tighter security on all the American citizens after the 9/11 attack. NSA has taken away people’s freedom by spying on everyone’s action in the United States, and the Patriot Act legalized the NSA invasion on the citizens’ privacy (Rouse). Not only the NSA makes people uncomfortable, the government spends excessive amounts of money on it and still cannot …show more content…
NSA surveillance, phone calls, messages, and any social networking record the individual actions by NSA. People tend to share their feelings and what they are doing openly on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. However, not everything is meant to be shared, some are too personal to share. The NSA collects personal data of the citizens such as being recorded in government surveillance cameras, collect phone numbers, activities, and movements on social networks. In the article, “Need for National Security Threatens Citizens’ Privacy”, the author stated, “Our personal privacy is coming increasingly under threat, as our lives are constantly monitored without our knowledge” (O’Cleirigh). The author ironically stated that our personal privacy is under threat, not our lives. It is true because as the government focus on the national security by spying on citizens, people start to feel insecure toward their own the government. Personal privacy is very important for each individual, so the government should respect that. They cannot justify their reason as “for the national security” to destroy that individual’s personal privacy. Moreover, they could use the citizens’ or foreign leaders’ personal data to blackmail if the citizens and foreign leaders are against the government’s policies (O’Cleirigh). In the article “Need for national security threatens citizens’ privacy”, the author explained that the …show more content…
Although the budget figure is classified, a former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked the information in 2013. The information includes about the government spying on everyone in the country and the foreign leaders, and the budget spending on the government spy organizations was leaked too. The “details of the $52.6 billion request for 2013 by America’s 16 spy agencies were revealed by the Washington Post. The NSA has requested $10.45 billion from Congress…” (MacAskill & Watts). That is about 20 percent of the government spy agency’s total budget. Even though the large amount of funding is spent on NSA, it has failed to prevent all the crimes. Since NSA is collecting citizens’ phone calls, surveillance cameras, personal data from online, etc. the information is flooded it in the system. That makes the organization incapable of narrowing down the actual threats and terrorists. In the article, “Point: The NSA’s Surveillance Programs Undermine National Security Efforts” stated, “indiscriminate data collection is inefficient and ineffective for identifying potential terrorist threats”. With all the data that NSA collects from citizens, it makes harder for the system to find the real