As technology today advances, our ability to track what the consumers do with it is easier to record with each new invention that is created. Today the NSA, or National Security Agency, invades our privacy by noting our every move. Not only will our privacy as a whole be demolished by the government, but the way we perceive the NSA could potentially lead to distrust in the government as a whole because of the unlawful jobs they are currently working on.
The sense of privacy is only a comfort blanket told to us by the government, who weaved webs of lies the past years. As the American Civil Liberties Union (Source A) informs the reader, “Corporations collect our information to sell to the highest bidder while an expanding surveillance apparatus …show more content…
The National Security Agency will eventually have to pay for their work that they’ve conducted. University of California-Berkeley wrote an article with a graph depicting what the NSA tracks when we use the internet. (Source D) This is astonishing because we can actually see the information that is recorded and we are able to finally see what they are watching out for. Information like this is ground-breaking in the same way that we find out about other secrets from our government that they are hiding from the …show more content…
Critics of the law feared the NSA would use the law to conduct broad surveillance of Americans' international communications and, in the process, capture an unknown quantity of purely domestic communications. “ The FISA Amendment Act is another step closer to having what the NSA is operating to be fully legal. A reason most civilians don’t know is because it was a secret change of the laws. Most major news didn’t cover this as breaking news, so it was seen with a blind eye. The government does things like this all the time, but no one is there to report it. The government controls the media and the people within that industry, not the other way around. Who helps the NSA record the world’s data? Well, technically any major phone or internet company. Verizon was recently reported to have a $1.35 Million fine on helping the NSA report their customer’s data, phone calls and text messages, over to NSA on a daily basis. (Source E) This shows that the NSA not only is powerful, but they also have help from other sources to connect the dots on what we do in our daily
The sense of privacy is only a comfort blanket told to us by the government, who weaved webs of lies the past years. As the American Civil Liberties Union (Source A) informs the reader, “Corporations collect our information to sell to the highest bidder while an expanding surveillance apparatus …show more content…
The National Security Agency will eventually have to pay for their work that they’ve conducted. University of California-Berkeley wrote an article with a graph depicting what the NSA tracks when we use the internet. (Source D) This is astonishing because we can actually see the information that is recorded and we are able to finally see what they are watching out for. Information like this is ground-breaking in the same way that we find out about other secrets from our government that they are hiding from the …show more content…
Critics of the law feared the NSA would use the law to conduct broad surveillance of Americans' international communications and, in the process, capture an unknown quantity of purely domestic communications. “ The FISA Amendment Act is another step closer to having what the NSA is operating to be fully legal. A reason most civilians don’t know is because it was a secret change of the laws. Most major news didn’t cover this as breaking news, so it was seen with a blind eye. The government does things like this all the time, but no one is there to report it. The government controls the media and the people within that industry, not the other way around. Who helps the NSA record the world’s data? Well, technically any major phone or internet company. Verizon was recently reported to have a $1.35 Million fine on helping the NSA report their customer’s data, phone calls and text messages, over to NSA on a daily basis. (Source E) This shows that the NSA not only is powerful, but they also have help from other sources to connect the dots on what we do in our daily