As The Famous NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden

" As the famous NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden once stated, “...the law is no substitute for morality… Every act of progression in our nation’s history has involved tension with the law..and that’s because the laws were wrong.” This followed his famous leak of the controversial NSA documents that proved the government surveillance of users on the internet– all users, that is. No one had heard of such a bizarre concept before. Several international governments were collecting online information on every human being possible, creating profiles containing all the information possible. This sparked international controversy. If nations were secretly spying on their people, who was to trust at all in this world? After thinking thoroughly about rights and liberties, one comes to the conclusion that the monitoring of internet content is the

The NSA collects billions of mobile phone records daily to track the telecommunications of ordinary people and their locations at all times. In a thirty day period in 2013, over 124.8 billion phone calls were recorded. The NSA monitors the phone, email, and social media connections of anyone within three “hops” of a foreign suspect. Each hop links to all the connections a person has on their contacts or social media friends. In other words, one hop away from a person puts all of his or her friends on the NSA watchlist, and the second hop puts all of their friends on the watchlist. As a result, the National Security Agency collects metadata on millions of people and has advanced software to do so, such as a diverse monitoring program called “XKeyscore.” The government is capable of monitoring where you are at any moment, recording your phone calls, viewing your direct messages, seeing your connections and contacts, and even accessing your devices at home and controlling them at their own will. This is not an issue to take