Pinkerton National Detective Agency

digital footprints in order to protect themselves from prying eyes. With the advancement of the digital age, the concern for privacy is needed now more than ever to protect a basic human right. In recent times, it has become commonplace for government agencies to keep citizens under surveillance for the purpose of collecting and…

Edward Snowden gave a great point of view in Alan Rusbridger interview. Snowden started his interview stating, “I’m not as scare as I thought ill be.” Snowden claim that he is happier in Russia. He also pointed out that he disagrees with most of the laws in Russia .He also said that no government should be able to see everyone’s privet information. He also states that he knows that he is under surveillance. Alan asked Snowden that if he had read the book by Edward Lucas where he states that…

Instead, significant adjustments often result from some type of external disruption—a tragedy, catastrophic event or scandal that exposes the imperfections of the status quo. For example, World War II gave rise to the CIA with the creation of the National Security Act of 1947, the fall of the Soviet…

The “Liberty City Seven” case served as a prototype for these terrorism sting operations. There is always a vast divide between the information in the initial news reports and the eventual reports after the government discloses all of the details in court. The Liberty City Seven were a group of young black males from one of the Miami’s poorest areas, Liberty City. They were approached by an undercover FBI criminal informant, Abbas al-Saidi who began his career as a drug snitch at the age of 16…

own people. It feels as if the governments really believes that its greatest enemy is its own citizen. Although surveillance might hold some merit, in its present form the mass surveillance is certainly on the wrong track. In Harvard Law School National Security Journal, Austen D. Givens talks about the ratchet effect, He talks about how once an anti terrorism law is made, it is difficult to scale back and the law may get misused or misinterpreted with time, the laws that were designed for a…

I think Ed Snowden felt it was the right thing putting all the top secret files out in public. Why? Because he did not like the fact that the US government could see what private citizens do on our phones, computers, TV, and other electronic devices. Snowden believed the US Government had been spying on its people for many years. He wanted US citizens to know that their own government had been watching them through their electronics, secretly invading their privacy and tracking their every…

The National Security Agency’s (NSA) collection of metadata has been questioned on constitutional grounds. Specifically, the NSA’s actions have been argued to conflict with the Fourth Amendment of the constitution, which states that all citizens are free from being subjected to any unreasonable searches or seizures initiated by the government. Proponents of the NSA’s collection of metadata believe that it is a crucial tool in preventing potential terrorist attacks, while opponents of the program…

torture, whether to do the torturing or implementing seeds to provoke torture amongst each other. Many methods and tactics were used and are connected to each other; but who is really to blame and who deserves to suffer because of it? NSA (National Security Agency) wiretapping are recorded, tracked, and saved data bases which develop people's profiles. The moment information is taken in it is stored for three days; then the data not affiliated with the primary target is cleared out. The…

The National Security Administration (NSA) breach started by Edward Snowden started shockwaves of criticism in the government. However, it also revealed that many people will remain silent despite uncomfortableness of being monitored because goes against the majority. The majority, stems from the October, 2001, Patriot Act which the United States has since then taken liberties in the means of national security. The spiral of silence demonstrates that people are willing to sacrifice their privacy…

Edward Snowden was a high school dropout that attended Anne Arundel Community College to study computers on two separate occasions. It was after his second time attending the college that he received his job as a security guard with the National Security Agency, which then turned into a job at the CIA with an information-technology job. He left the CIA two years later to work for both Dell and Booz Allen as a private contractor and subsequently in both places as a subcontractor…