Political privacy

The fourth amendment of our Constitution states: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, house, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause.” But in a case involving Edward Snowden, a now famous leaker of classified National Security Administration (NSA) surveillance operator, this amendment was challenged. The NSA Prism Program is used to gain private information from all Americans…

convicted of growing marijuana in his home because the technology that the Government used goes against the five senses rule, the device (thermal imager) that they used in not open for use in the general public, and last, DLK had an expectation of privacy in his own house. One reason that DLK’s Fourth Amendment right were violated is because the thermal imager that the U.S. Government used broke the five senses rule. In Document D it states,”When technology can exceed the natural senses, it…

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 messages…

Privacy is defined as a state in which one is not observed or disturbed by other people. So what defines privacy and “is privacy a situation, a right, a claim, a form of control or a value?” (Gavison, 1980, pg 424). It can be hard to nail down the limits of privacy but in terms of whether privacy is territorially defined or internationally recognised, there is no question that it is higher on the scale of internationally recognised. The Privacy Act 1988 enables to protect the privacy of…

If used by the right hands, technology can become a powerful tool to stamp out the undesirables from the desirables. This can be seen when Lessig Lawrence explained about the Z-theory and Patriot Act. Just like how the Patriot Act was used by the U.S. government to monitor U.S. citizens phone calls to track for terrorist, during the ages of the Inquisition, inquisitors would also monitor suspected heretics through record keeping and track down heresy. Just like how the Patriot Act only happen…

sentences): The article “Does Online Privacy Exist?” examines how even when private settings are set to the highest level, everything leaves a digital footprint that can share private information with interested 3rd parties. The article specifically looks at social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram; and the false sense of privacy being offered to their users. It also discusses the role government has played in the struggle to offer real privacy online. (5 pts.) Connection to…

I believe that Apple should cooperate with the FBI so that they can find the information that they need.Recently there was an investigation in the FBI that needed information from an IPhone,which is a product of Apple, because they believed it held information that could help understand why they did it and if there was going to be another attack.When the FBI asked Apple if they could get into the IPhone they said no.In the article “PRO/CON:Should Apple have resisted FBI pressure to hack an…

Jeffrey Rosen’s oddly titled essay, “The Naked Crowd”, actively attempts to prove that the concept and actions society has adopted are ruining our identities and compromising our privacy. The idea Rosen busily disapproves of across the text is that Americans prefer openness rather than privacy. Rosen yearns to remove this logic from people. He explains how their mentality plus the latest technology at their hands, causes an unacceptable consequence. For exposing ourselves to feel accepted and…

intimidate them. These systems have been compared with various leaders in history who passed various laws, acts and bills by instilling fear to other members of the public. The surveillance system does the same. Wendy views these systems as threats to privacy, liberty and physical safety which don’t go in line to the reasons they are put in place. People adapt the invasive and repressive security technologies not because they want to but because they are afraid to challenge them. Most people…

any national security reason and the legislation of any bill should be opposed. One reason is the government will be restricting our privacy if they collect our DNA. The second reason is that the government will want more power and control over the people. The collecting and storing of DNA for any reason shouldn’t be allowed because it is an invasion of privacy. The collecting of DNA creates a society where the government knows all about you or an Orwellian society. The collecting of…