...to Government’s spying program, more secrets are being held from the citizens. The Government is spying on citizens only to protect them, but really it has not been doing any good to the citizens. And with the spying program that the Government has started, they have begun to overreach its powers and have not stop it. With all, the technology that the Government has for spying the American community expects results, and they are not getting that from the Government. According to an article called the day we fight back, “I asked deputy general james cole how many criminal reasons have been filed as a result of this massive spying operation. His answer? maybe one. And he wasn’t even 100% sure of that.” The NSA has most technology today that most american citizens don't have. They have the government protecting them, but they still haven't captured multiple people, only one, but that is it. The police officer was not even sure if the NSA caught them or not. If the NSA is not producing the results they are over reaching their powers for no reason. If the NSA continues to do spy on the citizens,and not produce results the NSA will be shut down....
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...electronic communications in the U.S. and elsewhere. Manipulation has already occurred to people, corporations and governments that did not perform as certain members the of U.S. Government preferred. Businesses and...
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...Spying of the NSA The past year we all have heard of the NSA spying through social media, phones and all sorts of stuff, we heard of this because of Edward Snowden, an ex CIA- system analyst. He exposed their spying and this has resulted in to a global issue. Because the spying is wrong on so many levels we are here to convince you that what the NSA is doing is wrong. *attention grabber* So now that I have your attention I will continue. Main Point 1: How is it possible that the NSA is spying on civilians? Sub Point 1: What is the NSA; I’m going to begin by telling you a little about what the NSA is. The NSA better known as the National Security Agency is the main producer and manager of the signals intelligence for the United States. The NSA is responsible for the protection of U.S. government. The NSA is tasked with monitoring on targeted individuals in the U.S. But the NSA doesn’t just spy on targeted individuals; they spy on every U.S. citizen, they even spy on world leaders. They can spy on anyone around the world, and they can do this through social media, the internet and phones. I will explain this in more detail later. Ok so now that I’ve talked about what the NSA is, I will tell you guys how it is possible that the NSA is spying on us. Well to begin, the NSA spying program started back when George Bush was the president of the United States, the spying started right after nine eleven, this was in 2001 and that is 13 years ago so consider how long they have...
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...man by the name of Edward Snowden released information about the United States Government spying on us. Edward Joseph Snowden born in 1983, is an American computer professional. Edward Snowden grew up in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Snowden dropped out of high school in the 10th grade and later earned a high school diploma equivalent. Mr. Snowden is a former employee of the National Security Agency. “The agency’s missions are to ensure...
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...One specific aspect of surveillance morality is the myth of consent. The idea behind the myth of consent involves one of the most critical but ignored things in America: the terms and conditions. In the terms and conditions of most cell phone contracts, it will be stated that you consent to having your phone metadata, aspects such as call length and phone numbers, shared with the government (Spener 404-405). The problem with this is that not many people actually read those terms and conditions, they just blindly agree. This means that millions upon millions of Americans “consent” to have their information monitored, when virtually none of them are aware that they agreed to that. The debate about the morality of government surveillance is...
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... Individuals should not be hiding information, so they should be fine with the government searching through their personal information. This search does not cause any physical harm or crosses any boundaries, it only keeps the citizens safe and protected. Government spying programs help in the fight against terrorist and ensure Americans to stay safe which prevents many tragedies. Electronic Surveillance can help detect threats such as; terrorism, crime, child pornography, tax evasion, and fraud. Electronic surveillance continues to highly impact the American government because it can help fight back foreign hackers that want to obtain private information...
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...what they know as the public urges to find out. It is no secret the National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on Americans. This was proven in 2013 when a series of top secret documents was released to the public anonymously. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reported “Then three days later, the source surprisingly unmasked himself: His name was Edward Snowden.” What Snowden revealed changed how a huge percent of Americans took the approach to protect their privacy. The very first story revealed that Verizon had been providing the NSA with virtually all of its customers' phone records (Franceschi-Bicchierai). The public viewed Snowden as a hero for revealing secrets about their own "privacy". Mashable.com published a list by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai of the ten most shocking revelation that came from Edward Snowdens leaked documents. A few contain headings such as "NSA Elite Hacking Team Techniques Revealed," "NSA Spies on Foreign Countries and World Leaders," and "NSA Efforts to Crack Encryption and Undermine Internet Security." (Franceschi-Bicchierai) Snowden fled the country prior to August of 2013 to avoid charges (Perez). The government clearly was not happy. According to an article by Evan Perez published by CNN, "So far, the documents shared by the new leaker are labeled "Secret" and "NOFORN," which means it isn't to be shared with foreign government." Evidently these documents contain top-secret information but not just from Americans but foreign nations as...
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...the government holds from the public eye but many are not sure whether to call this activity an act of kindness or an act of selfishness. Whistleblowers throughout the years, from the Rosenberg's to Julian Assange have revealed confidential information about the governent to give America some type of justice but instead for most of them this didn't turn out to be the case. It is debated whether some whistleblowers should be classified as heros or villans and if whistleblowing acts should be considered helpful or harmful. The whistleblower I will be talking about in this essay is Edward Snowden and how he released information about the NSA's spying program. In my opinion I believe Edward Snowden did way more harm than good to America by releasing secure information held by the NSA. A whistleblower is a person who exposes wrongful information that goes on in a organization. Mainly, whistleblowers reach out to parties that can publicize this new found information. These parties include the media, hotlines, members of politics, managers of organizations, other rival businesses and other sources. In most cases the information revealed by the whistleblower goes against a law and harms the public in one way or another. Edward Snowden is a former CIA technical assistant who has claimed responsibility for leaking headline-making information about the National Security Agency's (NSA) surveillance program. He revealed that the NSA has records of majority of calls made in America, including...
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...communicate with each other, we need to be aware of how private our conversations are. According to Oxford Dictionaries, privacy is the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people or the state of being free from public attention. In today’s society, we have several social networking websites including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. The things we do and say online leave a trail behind of our personal information. Everyone can track us when users post pictures, click a hyperlink, send emails, turn on locations, and it gives companies the opportunity to public access and the ability to store it. Companies and the government collect information in ways that might could threaten our freedoms, because when corporations acquire our information they sell it back to the highest bidder, while the government introduces laws that allows them to monitor us like never before. It affects our freedom of speech, undermines a free media, and threatens the free exercise of religion. On the other hand, technology can also be implemented to limit corporations from collecting personal information and implements ways to protect our civil liberties. The different types of private information include private communication, privacy of the body, personal information, and information about one’s possession. Private...
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...August 7, 2015 ETHICS OF WIRETAPPING Since the First World War, government has been known to use private companies to wiretap phone lines for information. The legal structures, established by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), have defined a framework for legally securing a warrant for searches and tapping into phone lines of the American populace. Sometimes the government uses warrantless wiretapping without proper authorization and it exposes telecommunications companies to legal and financial ramifications. What I will argue in this paper is that warrantless wiretapping is unlawful and not ethical, as it harms citizens and violates their privacy. My position is that it is not violation of personal liberties and is immoral for the NSA to have access data when your average citizen is not a threat. Not completely following this law pertaining to wiretapping deviates from the natural check and balance system of the federal government. The failure to procure a warrant when wiretapping violates the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, and provokes media criticism. The National Security Administration (NSA) and other government agencies are required to wiretap only with the direct written authority of the FISA-assembled courts through a signed warrant. In rare cases, however, such as an imminent terror plot, against the government should it be allowed to intervene. The law-abiding system of gathering warrants before wiretapping...
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...parties concentrates on simplistic debates evaluating the tradeoff between individual privacy and national security. However, it is an important time for the government and other stakeholders to begin weighing the benefits and costs associated with the surveillance more carefully. In spite of the strong defense by intelligence officials in favor of the NSA programs, the officials fail to table any credible evidence in support of the benefits they suggest. In fact, some initial analysis of the programs indicates that the benefits are dubious. It is true that the United States is a target for terrorist and other malicious groups, state officials often use the threat as an excuse to conduct and promote the activities of the National Security Agency. It may be beneficial in the context of security, but the surveillance programs also jeopardize the activities and operations of other organizations and individuals within the United States. The impact of the activities of the NSA on other parties is a cause for an analysis of the economic effects realized within the economy of the United States by various parties. For the period that the National Security Agency has conducted its surveillance, through its programs, many nations lost trust in the intentions of the USA leading to a strain in economic relations in both private and government sectors. For many years the NSA has used data as a key to preventing attacks. However those practices...
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...troubling number of U.S. government officials who were passing on secret information on to the Soviet Union and completely spoiled American comforts (Issue Summary). One of the officials that were caught was Harry White. Being one of the most powerful officials in the U.S. Treasury Department, White warned the KGB on how the diplomatic strategy of America could be upset. Another official that was caught was Lauchlin Currie. Currie was President Franklin Roosevelt’s most trusted assistants. He told the KGB about the investigation that the FBI had started on one of the Soviets’ American agents, Gregory Silvermaster. After acquiring this information this made it easy for Silvermaster to get out of dodge of the FBI and continue spying. Also, during the Manhattan Project, Klus Fuchs and Theodore Hall, both physicists, and technician David Greenglass transferred the compound formula for extracting bomb-grade uranium from ordinary uranium, the plans for production facilities, and the engineering principles for the “implosion” technique, which made the use of a plutonium using atomic bomb possible (Haynes, Klehr). Haynes and Klehr stated that, “Americans worried that a communist fifth column, more loyal to the Soviet Union than to the U.S., had moved into their institutions”, so by the 1950s, there was a public consensus on three points: Soviet espionage was a serious issue, Soviets were assisted by American Communist, and the U.S. had been betrayed by many senior government officials (Haynes...
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...When people talk about government snooping or spying on Americans the big thing they really have a problem with is the Patriot Act. What this act did was give sweeping surveillance and domestic gathering powers to law enforcement in the name of fighting terrorism. I wonder if you take a poll between the people who have suffered through a terror attack and the people who have not, how much off a difference in opinion there would be. The debate has heated up over the last few months thanks to an individual named Snowden. Who by the way is to chicken to even come back to his own country and back up his own accusations. Gen. Keith Alexander along with the director of the FBI testified before a House committee to answer these accusations. Alexander stated that surveillance programs had help disrupt more than 50 terror threats worldwide, 10 of which had targets on U.S. soil (Marshall, 2013). Now I want you think about this. What if those 10 terror attacks had not been disrupted because law enforcement can’t use the Patriot Act and further if you or someone in your family was hurt by those would you feel different about spying then? As far as this idiot Snowden he has of yet provided any proof for his claims so how can you any entirely what he is saying. People argue that law enforcement agencies can come into your home and detain you because they feel you are partaking in anti-American activities. They can monitor your web surfing records, monitor your phone calls, and probably even...
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...The effect of the ACLU Imagine living in North Korea with no freedom and no idea of an outside world, having no rights and no way to communicate with anyone outside of the country. Without groups like the ACLU keeping the government in check and going to court for our civil liberties, that could very well be America. When a government has the power to take away their citizens rights, they start to no longer see their citizens as people. The ACLU fights for civil liberties and has championed many court cases over the violations of our constitutional rights. The ACLU was founded to defend our civil liberties and has successfully done so in the face of opposition from our own government. The ACLU was founded in 1920 by Roger Baldwin and many others....
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...Her voice gets lower and she trails off and her attorney has to bring her back and tell her to raise her voice. The guilt of what seems to be a false testimony is getting to Ruth and even in her answers I could tell that she feels bad for what she is doing but she also wants to save herself. The jury was probably very conservative who saw the Rosenberg’s as guilty before they even stepped into the courtroom. The outcome of the Rosenberg’s trial for espionage in 1951 and their later execution in 1953 was related to the political climate at that time. The governments’ evidence against the Rosenberg’s was not immense, but due to a mixture of fear and political pressure, the guilty verdict was inevitable. By publicly executing the Rosenberg’s, their guilt was confirmed because America would never kill innocent people. The American people and government were afraid of the threat of Communism, so they had to do whatever they could to try to stop the spread of...
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