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Argumentative Essay On Edward Snowden

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Edward Snowden put his own freedom at risk by revealing the misconduct of NSA and he made many important disclosures such as the NSA was seizing phone and text records of everyone in the US and was monitoring at least 122 world leaders.(Turley, 2014) Also, his documents showed evidence of million intercepted calls in foreign countries, including every call in places like Afghanistan and Iraq.( Turley, 2014). He did a great public service and what he did was an act of moral courage. Some people argue that he broke rules and shamed the government. He broke the law in disclosing classified information that might be harmful to the security of the US. They may be right with this argument but he did not reveal any personal data, plans or the targeted …show more content…

Terrorist find new ways to communicate secretly. Snowden reported in New Yorker relation to this: ‘We hack everyone everywhere, we are in almost every country and we are at not at wars with them. What is the need for monitoring then?’ Of course, the intelligence agencies and the US government disagree with this view and says that he has done a huge damage to the country. What most shocking is that he showed his finding to 2 of his superiors at the agency but they took no action. ( BBC news on TV) The public has the right to know if they are being monitored 24/7. Those in favour of mass surveillance may say that if you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear. In my opinion this argument doesn’t hold up, as we have a right to our privacy. I say that even if we are not doing anything wrong, how do we know that the people who are spying on us are not misusing our data. The employees and people who have all the access to this data, are they saints? There is a possibility that our data(taken unethically) can be misused. There is a possibility that the person going through our data is a pervert or may become a threat to us. Data from these government agencies might be hacked or taken and then misused. We must be able to expect the professionals to draw a line and refuse to cross it. But the question is, can we expect

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