Mass surveillance

(Greengard). This is bona fide here and there. Susan Landau, a past assurance agent at Google and cybersecurity expert says that, in 2002 phone taping helped the NSA to execute Al-Qaeda masters and various other little plots (111). In any case, surveillance didn't stop Boston marathon shelling. In spite of the way that, cameras around the structures helped FBI and law usage to catch them. This is one motivation behind why surveilling is not working. This is in light of the fact that by far most…

the NSA system has the capacity to reach roughly 75 percent of all U.S. Internet traffic. An audit of the NSA dated May 2012 counted 2,776 incidents in the preceding 12 months of unauthorized collection” (Allen). This shows that the NSA has collected mass amounts of data from American citizens. This also proves the fact that the NSA has been breaking into the personal lives of Americans without having any type of permission or…

Zaina Abdul Mr. McMurphy English 12 October 28 2014 Thomas Jefferson once said “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people….they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” This great man spoke this out of concern that there might come a time when the government of the United States will be too powerful and intrusive. By releasing important classified information, Edward Snowden proved himself a hero by warning the public about the…

database exposing illegal governmental surveillance of US citizens, and foreign countries, before leaking them to multiple journalists. To properly respond to the Edward Snowden leaks, the citizens of America must view him as an individual whose intentions were good, but whose executions…

and why it’s so sensitive, is that the laws of physics don’t let you keep it private” (Gellman and Soltani). Location data is just one example of government spying and big-data collection unknown to most people. While some may argue that this surveillance is necessary to keep the country safe and prevent terrorism, others insist it is a violation of civil rights. Many U.S. residents fear these extreme measures of data collection, as they use personal devices and may prove intrusive to daily…

school shooting that took place on April 16, 2007 on the campus of Virginia polytechnic institute. This fatal murder shooting was perpetrated by a particular gunman, who killed 32 people and wounded 17 others. Recently, at Umpqua College in Oregon, a mass shooting killed 10 people and injured 7 more. Also, other many crimes like robbery and sexual assaults are increasing in many colleges. Therefore, many students, professors and college staff members now fear for the future. For these reasons…

Body Cameras: Changing Communities for Eternity An unarmed black man is killed in Ferguson, a town in the St.Louis metro area by a cop, with no evidence about what happened a community is left with nothing but questions. (And With So Many Questions) Without knowing what happened the community forms it’s own beliefs then, riots the streets, robbing stores and annihilating everything in their paths. A city once filled with serenity is now a war zone that requires riot shields and tanks for…

Kick The Habit If you place “privacy” on one side of the balance, and “security” on the other side, will they be equal? Or would one kick the beam? Would you like to have all your personal information laid out for the eyes of an officer for the sake of yours and others’ security? How would you feel if you enter a job interview knowing that the interviewer has a complete background check about you in his files? “Privacy” is defined as one’s right to keep personal information private. Yes! It is…

ARGUMENTATIVE Essay 11/10 my argument is about what is more important our privacy or national security there has been info released on many websites about a man named edward snowden who worked with the NSA, Snowden began noticing programs that were spying on phone records and webcams and internet use. Snowden left the company after leaking the information. I think that the government should not be spying on U.S Citizens for “security reasons because then that means the government think that we…

Technology, it plays a very important part in our everyday lives. It's in our homes, in our neighborhood, and in our city. Almost everywhere you go, you will find technology and that is the problem. Almost every piece of technology has a camera. Cameras are everywhere and that's a bad thing, privacy is no longer a reality, there will always be someone watching you. Privacy, we want it, we need it, and it helps show our true selves. No one truly is how they act in public, people talk and act…