National Security Agency

being forever viewable to the world. Our online activity is constantly on display and is being tracked at every moment. The United States has been granted the ability to secretly examine, store, and distribute the metadata of potentially billions of people with the greatest surveillance capabilities ever seen in human history; with all the power concentrated almost exclusively within the Executive Branch of the government; specifically surveillance agencies such as the NSA, and the FISC courts that approve of their…

Federal agencies have led law enforcement efforts against computer crime since these agencies hold the technical expertise and political influence to gather significant financial and operational resources at the national level. Thus, these agencies have progressively reorganized in an attempt to channel resources directly at preventing digital crimes and capturing computer criminals, including the creation of special sections within these organizations, employing of new personnel who have…

What the NSA does for Americans? The National Security Agency (NSA) is an intelligence organization of the united government, responsible for global monitoring, collection and processing of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes. One of many duties that the NSA does is to track people and collecting billions of their records everyday. The kind of Data that the NSA collect is Website visits, Internet Searches, Phone calls, Skype calls, Emails, Text…

intelligence purposes. This intelligence organization is called the National Security Agency (NSA) and was established in 1972 by President Truman. The NSA had few issues with the American people, up until 2013, when the Guardian newspaper reported that the NSA was collecting the telephone and email records of tens of millions…

1.) The type of data that the National Security Agency is collecting data for the phone numbers, call location, duration, and times of all calls made each day within the U.S. and between the U.S. and other countries. 2.) I personally don’t feel like they should be allowed to collect this data. But there are advantages and disadvantages to them collecting this specific data. The advantages are that they can figure out who has been in touch with a terrorist specifically and who the person had…

In the summer of 2013, Edward Snowden became a household name when he showed the world a corrupt, horribly invasive program run by the National Security Agency, also known as the NSA. This debacle is known as one of the largest surveillance programs in all of history. The NSA invaded the privacy of every United States citizen with access to the internet, and even read through emails and discussions of people in other countries. Was Snowden justified in his release of reports he learned during…

PRISM is a massive surveillance program established by the United States National Security Agency in 2007 with the goal of obtaining and analyzing information on criminal activity. In 2013, the whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the extent of the National Security Agency’s operations were much larger than previously realized (BBC News). It is now known that the National Security Agency has obtained information from the servers of major internet companies (e.g. Google, Facebook,…

According to BBC News, in June of 2013 the story broke through the newspaper, the Guardian that the United States National Security Agency (NSA), was spying on foreign leaders, people of power both in the US as well as other countries, and millions of Americans. On going stories also revealed that the NSA was collecting data from various allies such as Greece, France, and Italy. They also collected data from allies outside of Europe such as India, Japan, and South Korea (Edward Snowden: Leaks…

Implemented by Senator Ted Kennedy and signed into law by President Carter in 1978 “The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was introduced to sanction procedures for requesting judicial approval for electronic surveillance and physical search of persons engaged in espionage or international terrorism against the United States on behalf of a foreign power. But in 2013, a young contractor/whistleblower named Edward Snowden released a series of detailed disclosures of internal documents to…

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…