Post 9/11 Privacy Rights: The Case Against Electronic Surveillance In response to concerns about terrorism after the attacks on September 11,2001, the government of the United States enacted new guidelines for conducting surveillance on the public. This paper will discuss the implementation of electronic surveillance as a tool to combat terrorism and will make the case against sweeping electronic surveillance of American citizens and others in this country. Various examples of increased surveillance along with decreasing privacy right will help the reader to conclude that these tactics have not reduced incidents of any type of crime, including terrorism. This paper will also discuss several types of electronic surveillance, including the collection of metadata from telephone records, which intruded on the private lives of citizens and did not increase their safety in any meaningful way.…
In The United States of America the National Security Agency has been working for ages to assure that the country is safe, but recently it has become a rising concern that they have overstepped their boundaries of American citizen’s privacy by operating surveillance technology all around the country and storing data form every phone call of citizens. With the American Citizens’ privacy at stake, each branch of government took its stand against the matter. The Judicial Branch has to come up with a legal compromise; the Legislative Branch and Congress are working to make surveillance laws that would better please its citizens, and the Executive Branch and the president have agreed to come up with an alternative to Section 215 of The Patriot Act. The Supreme Court has to establish a legal compromise to the surveillance of the American citizens considering it was said that what the National Security Agency/Central Security was doing went against Section 215 of the Patriot Act.…
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden recently revealed the NSA’s dubious methods. They monitor the internet activity of every American, as well as have access to their phone calls. This is an obvious infringement of the Constitution. The effectiveness and safety of the NSA has been…
The constitution protects people’s over government abuse of power and should be respected. Government surveillance advocates disagree. They believe the surveillance activities should remained unnoticed and undetected from citizens and…
After the attacks of 9/11, nearly 263 government agencies were reorganized as well as the creation of the Department of Homeland security, which nearly doubled the intelligence budget from 2001 (Freedman, 2011). Much of the technology used in surveillance efforts is off-the-shelf and is lacking in innovation. Moreover, the technological boom in the private sector has afforded the Government many avenues in which to collect information on private citizen including social media, cell phone records, GPS information, financial records, medical information and other third-party services that are capable of storing gigabytes of information on an individual (Shamsi & Abado, 2011). This notion leads to the issues of that information’s security…
If agents don’t monitor computers and other statistics and the Patriot Act doesn’t impose new tough laws, then there won’t be a United States of America. Agents are able to track computers and trespassers who are trying to hack into government software and/or who are communicating with others who are trying to terrorize the United States. The ACLU also warned that American freedom is endangered by the Patriot…
After September 11, 2001, many things changed in the United States. Because of the potential for additional attacks on Americans here and abroad, the government started monitoring conversations on the Internet and on cell /telephones of citizen of the United States. This monitoring of electronic devises was without the knowledge or consent of the owners. The National Security Agency or NSA was very good at keeping their surveillance a secret from the public but all things done in the dark come to the light sooner or later. The NSA has completed all three branches of the U.S. Government and the American people to reexamine their positions on surveillance as the threat of terrorism increases.…
With this collected data, the United States government can monitor internet users. These technological advancements, along with the rising fear of terrorism and international crime, has led to the surveillance of many innocent American citizens. The United States government can easily collect information about anyone, with little or no judicial supervision. For example, in 2008, the FBI sought out a robbery suspect, and, without a warrant, collected information on the suspect along with 180 other…
“Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet,” stated Gary Kovacs the president of several software companies (Kovacs). However, since the implementation of the Patriot Act in 2001, the loss of American privacy is one of the many results of the new set of revised laws that have been rewritten to give the government more freedom in observing our electronic fingerprint (“Surveillance Under the Patriot Act”). In their hurry to act on the tragedy of 9/11, Congress passed the Act a mere 45 days of the event, with little to no debate. The result of it’s ratification, was a drastic change in the surveillance laws and restrictions of the federal government (“End Mass Surveillance Under the Patriot…
Edward snowden is a computer professional that is famously known for leaking information on the U.S. National Security Agency in 2013. Snowden said in an interview that “ The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything that is uses telecommunications.”(www.cfr.org). This infrastructure collects data all around the United States. This is private information that is being collected without our consent or a warrant being present. The Obama Administration defended the surveillance program saying “ it 's legal, limited and effective with preventing terrorist acts” (www.cfr.org).…
The central theme of this research paper is about how the privacy of american citizens are being violated by the government. American citizens should not be willing to give up their aspects of their personal privacy to the government to feel safe. The government has no right to have control of people’s personal privacy for the greater good of society. In 1984 big brother has telescreens all over the place in houses, offices, stores and in workplaces etc. where he is able to watch everybody twenty-…
Say Hey to the NSA Is violating the Constitution and using an ineffective counterterrorism method the best way to gather intelligence? If this constitutionally questionable method only began 1.8 percent of terror investigations, the answer seems obvious. Proponents of the National Security Agency’s programs such as PRISM will claim it is vital to protect the nation against terrorists and is well within the law.…
The government says that they don't use them to spy on everyone it's only if they need to find someone they will easily be able to look on the recording and be able to see there every move. The U.S. is starting to look more like the book “1984” where the people couldn't even think anything about the government or they would have been…
President? The United States was blind-sighted in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack which resulted in the death of 2,977 innocent Americans. This was the largest attack in the history of the U.S. on our soil and although the signs were there for the intelligence community to see, it was mistakenly not put together. Much of the attack stemmed from communications between terrorist or those connected and working with terrorist within our Country, and this was unacceptable. In order to defend against such communications, according to Lichtblau & Risen (2005), “Under a presidential order signed in 2002, the intelligence agency has monitored the international telephone calls and international e-mail messages of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States without warrants over the past three years in an effort to track possible ‘dirty numbers’ linked to Al Qaeda, the officials said. The agency, they said, still seeks warrants to monitor entirely domestic communications”.…
Forward: When Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA was spying on us in 2012, I expected people to be outraged. I expected a massive public backlash that would lead to reform. By and large, the public’s reaction has been underwhelming. For one reason or another, government surveillance is a topic that many people don’t know about or don’t talk about. I’ve talked to people about surveillance before, and many of them were unaware of key details about it.…