Surveillance

One reason people believe this is because it is necessary in tracing criminals. On The Ethics of Surveillance, Tony Wu states, “if you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear” (Wu, “The ethics (or not) of massive government surveillance"). Many different Governments tend to use this argument when people begin to question why they are constantly being watched. If there is nothing to hide, why worry? Another reason…

many people and was generally through of as a good thing until the government tried to convince us otherwise. Using the work of Michal Foucault and Noam Chomsky we see that the idea of mass surveillance for good is skewed and is being used for power and leverage over the population. I believe mass surveillance is an issue to be concerned about and through evidence presented in Glenn Greenwald’s TED talk on privacy. Glenn Greenwald’s TED talk entitled Why Privacy Matters opens a door to…

The National Surveillance Agency was birthed as a result of alarmist politics. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 inspired a governmental overhaul of its security measures. With the entire world in shock, the United States federal government approached security threats with new governmental programs designed to protect the public. Although the public did not learn about this program until a few years after it was created, this program was the United States’ preemption against terrorists and enemies…

Who wouldn’t spend a couple billion dollars if it meant that acts like 9/11 or large massacres could be avoided? Proponents of mass surveillance claim that they do just that. If systems like the NSA actually had a positive track record of doing this there may be far less retaliation to their disobedient methods. In 2013, a government review began on these surveillance programs and “That winter, a panel set up by Obama to review the NSA 's operations concluded that the agency had stopped no…

Most critics of surveillance argue about how it is an abuse of power, a violation of people 's privacy, and most importantly, unconstitutional, while proponents of surveillance claim the benefit of surveillance is a reduction in the probability of high-cost events such as terrorism. Government surveillance programs, when conducted in controlled situations and closely audited by independent organizations, do not directly harm innocent civilians, especially when they benefit the safety of the…

national security of the 21st century, the national government responded strongly and swiftly. Under President Bush, the Patriot Act was easily passed through both houses of Congress, and has since then been reauthorized multiple other times (NSA Surveillance). The powers and responsibilities of the National Security Agency were also drastically altered to fit the needs of a new era in this nation. The Patriot Act The Patriot Act granted the national government more authority and enforcement in…

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) epitomizes contemporary conflict in our judicial system. Background of Social Conflict FISC was originally established by Congress as a special court in 1978, and then revolutionized in 2001, however, it only recently became relevant to the general public after “whistleblowing” Edward Snowden exposed the seemingly underground system to American Society in 2015. Even then it, arguably, has not…

government had been using dragnet surveillance to surveil most calls, texts, emails, and video chats that occurred within the U.S., what is interesting is that more citizens from the United States were being surveilled than citizens from Russia. While there is less population in Russia it is still interesting to see that more of the United States’ citizens were being spied on. There was only slightly more spying occurred in china than the US. In a 30 day period 97 billion internet records were…

the United States has increased its methods of surveillance with new technology advances and we need new privacy laws. Some concerns are video surveillance, data surveillance, government surveillance, and communications surveillance. There has been an increase in video surveillance since 9/11. Cameras are not just in important public places like the Statue of Liberty or the National Mall but also in the streets. In Manhattan, there are surveillance cameras everywhere so no one can walk…

give the nation’s police and intelligence officials the power to collect information about potential terrorists living in the country. The Patriot Act, however, soon became very controversial because it provided for greatly expanded government surveillance not only of terrorists, but of all U.S. residents, including ordinary citizens (Smithsimon 1). People are being monitored not only by their emails and phone calls, but while they are out in public as well. Thousands of cameras, both publicly…