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NSA Pros And Cons

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The NSA Decoded article written by the newspaper: The Guardian, addressed the actions of the United States government National Security Agency’s controversial involvement in secret programs to protect the public from future terrorist attacks. The Bush administration allowed the NSA to use programs to collect metadata from “loose interpretation” of section 215 of the patriot act, the data included: Emails, web browsing activity, phone calls, and other forms of communication (metadata is the data of data that isn’t based on content it consists of: the name of the user, time, date, location and frequency of use of the information) of millions of Americans and high ranked international officials of many countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America. The discovery of these programs have onset a massive debate extending past the United States border about surveillance of Internet and telecommunication security, becoming an increasingly important issue of “defense of democracy in the digital age”. …show more content…

That system in the constitution has gone seriously off the wheels when you see what is happening in the spy agencies.” After September 11, the United States responded by granting the NSA (a government agency created after WW2 to prevent surprise attacks on the United States) more power to protect the United States from future terror attacks. The agency collected mass amounts of data, sifting through millions of Americans metadata information. With the metadata that the NSA collected, Privacy activists argued that metadata included “personal information, which can build a more detailed profile than listening into

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This act increased the federal powers imposed on the citizens in order to help their efforts towards investigating terrorists. These powers included telephone taps, internet taps, voice mail, grand jury information, immigration, money laundering, and crime. While these powers made it easier for the government to track down possible suspects of terrorism, it interfered with the people’s right to privacy. All the provisions under the Patriot Act can be used on the citizens with the approval of a court order. Furthermore, it interfered with the Fourth Amendment.

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Due to the enactment of the The Patriot Act back in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks, the United States has felt its effect on their right to privacy. Many believe that the US has taken advantage of the act to spy on innocent Americans rather than actually gathering information on terrorists. Certain methods are used such as eavesdropping on phone calls, The Prism Program which contains vital information of americans across the internet. A bulk database of phone numbers etc, The Patriot Act does have its positive aspects in certain areas except privacy. However, it also comes with its cons as well.

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The moment that the Twin Towers fell in New York, America became destined for change. In the wake of these attacks, the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 was quickly passed through congress, and signed by then-president, George W. Bush. The act itself gives the FBI and other government agencies the ability to do and use certain methods, many of which are already used by other law enforcement organizations, to help prevent future terrorist attacks. Since then, this piece of legislation has been the center of much debate and controversy. But, there is ample reason to believe that the Patriot Act is needed and effective.

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Shah 2 Similar to the debates around the Patriot Act, revelations about government data collection have sparked concern over potential violations of individual rights. Byron Tau reveals a network of government contractors procuring vast amounts of consumer data, obtained from sources like social media and smartphones, for undisclosed purposes. These surveillance practices raise questions about accountability and the limits of government intrusion into our private lives. As people grapple with the implications of data collection, there are demands for transparency and oversight, underscoring the imperative to balance security with respect for civil liberties. As Tau warns, “Any nightmare use of data you can think of will probably eventually happen,” heightening the urgency of addressing these concerns and safeguarding individual privacy rights.

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In 2001, following the most successful terrorist attack on U.S. soil in the history of the nation, the Bush Administration and Congress granted the National Security Agency (NSA) broad powers to collect both foreign and domestic intelligence to avoid a similar strike in the future. Ever since, the NSA has conducted covert measures to collect signal intelligence on a global scale. The extension of powers granted to the NSA has been met with significant controversy on both its legality and constitutionality. It is apparent that the NSA surveillance program is constitutional for citizens of the United States, because all stored data is encrypted upon collection, and warrants are needed to decrypt the stored data for review. However, the United

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In his excellent blog NSA surveillance and the Failure of Intelligence, Aftergood looks at the history of domestic

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Based on the principles of rights ethics, individuals have certain privileged rights and one of them is privacy and protection against invasion of personal rights and property. Individual rights can be moral, legal or ethical in nature and have to be respected by everyone, be it the person next door or the government. Thus, NSA’s interference into the personal lives of U.S citizens and foreign nationals, by collecting data without their knowledge, is nowhere near ethical or moral. If they had to do so based on so called reasons of “national security”, NSA should have disclosed their actions to the public and justified their mode of operation. Overall, national security is important so safeguard the nation, but at the same time, individual

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According to ACLU, “Recent disclosures also show that an unknown number of purely domestic communications are monitored, that the rules that supposedly protect Americans' privacy are weak and riddled with exceptions, and that virtually every email that goes into or out of the United States is scanned for suspicious keywords.” Through this action, citizens are being more prepared to insure that similar acts that occurred on 9/11 never have to happen again. The FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA) gave NSA almost unchecked power to monitor americans. U.S citizens need to be educated on what is going on when they are using their phones but they also need to learn about why it needs to be done. According to HR14, once Thinthread, which is a technology that protected civil liberties in alignment with the Constitution, and was relatively inexpensive to implement had gained permission to such the NSA database they found critical information that gave evidence of the hijackers actions before 9/11.

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The NSA or the National Security Agency carries out most of the domestic surveillance in the United States. Before the 9/11 attacks the NSA needed approval from a court, but after the attacks, they were given free reign to copy any data that possibly linked to terrorist activities. This led to many arguments over whether this collection of data was unconstitutional or not. The extent of this surveillance shocked many people; many civil rights advocates thought that this surveillance breached United States citizens’ rights. Because of the threat of domestic surveillance in the United States it should be decreased drastically but not entirely stopped.

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This shows that the NSA is abusing its power not only in the US but outside as

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The truth is that “The US government, with assistance from major telecommunication carriers including AT&T, has engage in massive, illegal dragnet surveillance of the domestic communications and communication records of millions of ordinary Americans” (Rumold). People who have never committed any action that would flag a terrorist plot are having their communication information exposed to the government due to AT&T reporting all of their customer’s phone calls. Users, knowing their conversations are being recorded, have to live in fear because they have to be careful of every word they speak. This fear rejects the people from privacy and freedom because they have to continuously live in fear of their own government. AT&T surveillances user’s actions by “installing a fiber optic splitter at its facility at 611 Folsom Street in San Francisco that makes copies of all emails web browsing and other internet traffic to and from AT&T customers and provides those copies to the NSA”(Rumold).

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operations called PRISM. PRISM is a computer program which is used to monitor private web data from companies like, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, Apple, Youtube, and others. Although this program is used to monitor foreign communication, analyst only need to be 51% sure that the material they are monitoring is foreign communication in order to access the information. The first thing PRISM violates is the collection of phone call records in order to search for possible terrorist abroad, and the second is the surveillance of online communications to and from foreign targets in order to detect suspicious behavior. Even though PRISM is doing a good thing by detecting terrorism, it is also violating American’s right to privacy by analyzing private phone records and online data without approval of the citizens.

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In June of 2013, Edward Snowden released documents revealing the National Security Association, surveillance programs. Edward Snowden brought about great debates on whether the NSA is correct in doing these surveillance programs on citizens, tracking them through technology. The NSA collects data through cell phones, messaging, social media, applications on phones, intercept photos, and many more ways reported by New York Public Radio. Our group decided to survey the class on basic information about the NSA, their attitudes towards it and possible policy changes.

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The technology introduced by the internet was so powerful that monitoring it became one of the highest priorities for American intelligence agencies. The NSA scans bulk internet content for “keywords” to determine their surveillance targets. This is done with little limitation and no court approval (Todd 7).The NSA operates with few restrictions on what content

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The controversy over the government for tapping into citizen’s phone and email communications is a serious topic that has been going on for a long time. This topic became more controversial when Edward Snowden leaked critical documentation to public about government surveillance programs that were created after 9/11. Many Americans have a different perspective between this particular concerns that is still being talked about. For instance, some citizens are outraged by this controversy and some citizens were not concerned at all about this. In my perspective, I think it was wrong for the government to be able to tap into our phones or filter out packets that contain our personal information.

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