The Pros And Cons Of The National Security Agency

"In this day of age, we have dedicated large portions of our lives to the internet and staying connected. This allows a wide variety of knowledge and entertainment to be brought into every home. However, the vast amount of resources available online can possibly be a bad thing. Countless organizations of crime and terrorism roam the online world with a sense of anonymity and the resources to mass spread their ideologies across the world. This has led to the creation of governmental organizations such as the National Security Agency (NSA) that hold the main goal of trying to prevent terrorist and crime organizations from carrying out evil and violent attacks on the people of the United States and the world. On a platform like the internet, it is very hard to track these organizations to a certain individual through anonymity tactics such as internet codenames and virtual private networks (VPNs), so organizations like the NSA spy on individuals through their internet to find possible terrorists before acts of terrorism are even committed. The National Security Agency was originally created during the World War I era to decipher code intercepted from the enemy. It was created without any congressional authorization …show more content…
Since the internet is relatively new, most cases of the government spying on an individual through their internet connection is handled on a case by case basis, where a judicial warrant must be signed by an actual judge to allow such surveillance. The creation of the NSA is a loophole to that rule. The NSA works with the major telecommunications companies (i.e. AT&T) and implements objects such as fiber optic splitters that relay consumers_Ñé internet activity to the NSA for analysis. The United States House of Representatives or the Senate have yet to fully approve any of this surveillance and no Supreme Court of the United States case has addressed the